The theater of chimeras: a study on the boundaries between man and animal in Valère Novarina’s work

Abstract

This article is dedicated to the discussion launched by Valère Novarina about man’s limits and possibilities, understanding his theater as the performing of the language and of the human. The dense metaphors, created under the “animal mask”, contribute to form the conflict between the man and the world. Performing the animal, in this context, does not mean, therefore, turn the stage into an imitation or representation space, but into a questioning one. Novarina review, thus, an entire metaphysical tradition, present in the theater, but also in our thoughts. We should do the same, if we are to understand the scope of his writing and its poetic and philosophical implications. Time’s animal is the work from which we will make such an analysis.