Open AccessO MITO DO ORIENTE NO IMAGINÁRIO BRASILEIRO
Author(s) -
Ana Lúcia Liberato Tettamanzy
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
organon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2238-8915
pISSN - 0102-6267
DOI - 10.22456/2238-8915.29737
Subject(s) - wonder , soul , mediocrity principle , perspective (graphical) , art , dilemma , art history , humanities , history , philosophy , theology , visual arts , epistemology , physics , astrobiology
Throughout the years, the Orient has been a mythical place to Portugaland Brazil, on which they reflect, albeit imaginatively, the dilemma of their ownidentities. In O Mandarim, Eça de Queiroz dramatizes the mediocrity of Portugueselife through Teodoro, who, while embarking on a voyage in search of a misteriousmandarin, ends up discovering his true self. In the short story Academia do Sião,Machado de Assis creates a bizarre plot, dealing with soul exchanges and corruptionin a grandiose Chinese Kingdom. Thus, from a luso-brazilian perspective, the Orientseems to stand for both the obscurity and the wonder of human condition.