The Queen of the Dead: image, language and silence

Abstract

In this article I will concentrate on the last of the plays of Raúl Damonte Taborda (Copi) “Una visita inoportuna” and his famous cartoon, “La mujer sentada”. The material is divided in two registers, theater and cartoon . At the same time, the corpus involves two distant geographical locations : Buenos Aires and Paris. The account of his own death in an early stage and present-future time , realizes the ambivalence of meaning and commitment to the absurd. Moreover, the problem of language and translation is an irresolvable tension in the production of Copi , aspect which reflects and emphasizes a loss of identity as an impossible or purely destructive aspect . Is not death the final event whose meaning is no sense? Within the dialectic between being and appearance , between the real and its folds , between the signifier and the signified , installs , cruel silence , graphics Copi.