Nicanor Parra, anti-poesia e anti-utopia

In this article, we analyze the themes and language of Nicanor Parra’s Antipoems to show how its ethical and aesthetic code certify the refutation of any kind of utopia, from the literary to the political one, from the religious to the scientific one, conceived as a mythology of the human progress. Anti-poetry and Anti-utopia, thus, naturally meet due to their shallow pretensions and motives, to the denial of any social compromise or teleological aspiration, and through an Anti-Rethoric based on an irreverent use of language, on irony and, sometimes, on the sarcastic way in which human pulsions and ambitions are observed.