Japão nos. 1,2, ... A invenção do oriente na poesia de Miguel-Manso

• Autor(es): Eiras, Pedro
• Data: 2014
• Identificador Persistente: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/77735
• Origem: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Assunto(s): Humanidades; Humanities
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo científico
• Idioma: Português

Descrição

In The Decay of Lying (1889), Oscar Wilde says that « the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people. » Almost a century later (1970), Roland Barthes travels to Japan to find himself lost in an empire of signs. Why does the Orient become a net of fictions, artifices, exiles, why does it multiply in a sequence of short poems, false haikus - Japan n. 1 to 7 - in Miguel-Manso's Contra a Manhã Burra (2008) ? Through a close reading of these poems, this essay aims to describe the imaginary of Japan in Miguel-Manso's work.