F. T. Marinetti: The untamable
Aug 8th, 2007 • Categories: Spain, mediateletipos, publicationsIn a volcanic island and reserve guard, under a burning tropical sun, around a hundred men chained, the Untamable, "straightened up as hedgehogs with their tips", naked and tight with necklaces of iron, tied, they lie on a grave watched by some black jailers with muzzles. The Untamable most important they are: Mirmofim the surgeon, Curguss the priest, Kurotoplac the schoolteacher, Kizmicá… and the jailers are: Mazzapá and Vokur. Ferocity, blood, violence are the attributes of these men-wild animals. With the dusk their animalistic fury is appeased: the black free them and to these the Cartáceos, gentlemen of the island, they remove them the muzzle. They arrive at the Lake of the Poetry and of the Feeling, where the Untamable and their jailers bathe, being purified. They continue the road and they reach the City, where boils the rebellion of the River that are opposed to the Cartáceos, their dominating. And there it begins a visionary adventure of surprising images crossed of part to part by powerful signs of vanguard, mixing purity and candor, passion, poetry, symbolism and projection toward the future, toward a dreamy and new company but in permanent conflict.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti published The Untamable in 1922 and up to now himself had not been translated the Spaniard.
