“Neppure i morti sono al riparo dal nemico. Una lettura di JK, di Juan Mayorga”

The article proposes an analysis of one of the best-known short texts by playwright Juan Mayorga and relates it to the probable identity of its “real” co-protagonist (Walter Benjamin) and one of his unfinished books (On the Concept of History), concluding that the core of JK can be understood as a theatrical figuration of the Benjaminian phrase that echoes within it: “Not even the dead are safe from the enemy”. On the other hand, some ‘inaccuracies’ of the narrator’s voice might illustrate how tortuous the historical reconstruction of past events is and lay bare, possibly, a strategy of obscuration. Historical memory is the product of numerous interferences and, in certain circumstances, the simple result of a series of attempts at erasure.