Sacrificial violence and the banality of history. An allegorical reading on Ramon Griffero's almuerzo de mediodía or brunch

Abstract

The present article proposes a reading of the work of the Chilean playwriter Ramon Grifero from the matrix that ofers us the concept of allegory, as Walter Benjamin and Paul De Mann. The sacriicial allegory would be a privileged procedure to understand the results of the violence exercised by the Dictatorship on the civil society that involved its deactivation during the so called “transition”. Following Idelber Avelar, the allegory is the form to work the duel and the defeat that produced this dictatorial violence. In agreement to this, “Almuerzo de mediodía o Brunch” would be an allegory of fractures of the history and a relection on the sense and limits of the sovereignty and his violence.