Dementia Analogy as a Way of Interpreting ´El fin de la locura´ by Jorge Volpi

Abstract

This article will analyze the unusual way Jorge Volpi´s El fin de la locura has to present its representative constructions. Parody and carnival elements —intertwined in a complex multiplicity of voices— make up a proposal based on a dementia principle. Each voice (that of Lacan, Althusser, Foucault and Barthes´ ) help make up the configuration of narrative universe where incoherence, power and ambiguity prevail together with a parodic take-over of an intellectual world and that of the conditioning of contemporary thought.