PONTO DE REFÚGIO E INSPIRAÇÃO: MACAU NA OBRA DO ESCRITOR NEERLANDÊS JAN JACOB SLAUERHOFF (1898-1936)
This article analyzes the function of Macau in the work of the Dutch writer Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (1898-1936), arguing that the city serves as a point of refuge and inspiration within an aesthetic of the decline of Western culture between the two world wars. The approach is historical-literary and bi...
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| description | This article analyzes the function of Macau in the work of the Dutch writer Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (1898-1936), arguing that the city serves as a point of refuge and inspiration within an aesthetic of the decline of Western culture between the two world wars. The approach is historical-literary and biographical: it reads Slauerhoff’s itinerary—from his contact with Macau in 1927–1930 to the incorporation of the city into the genesis of *Het verboden rijk* (*The Forbidden Kingdom*, 1932), including the dedication and prologue of the novel—in relation to Portuguese sources on Macau (*Historic Macao*) and to the biography of Camões as a repertoire of historical images. The analysis situates the work within a current of interwar cultural thought that, influenced by Oswald Spengler, reads Western history as an organism subject to birth, peak, decline, and death; and that, through Reinhold Schneider (*Das Leiden des Camões*), associates Camões with the figure of an empire in decay. Slauerhoff invokes Camões, the great explorers, and the geography of Macau to sustain a literary identity that resists civilizational dissolution. Macau thus emerges as a locus for reflection on the Orientalization of Portuguese culture and, at the same time, as a source of poetic identities and fictional plots. The article concludes that the refuge/inspiration of Macau makes it possible to understand the interface between historical critique, imperial memory, and aesthetic creation in the author’s work. |
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| spelling | PONTO DE REFÚGIO E INSPIRAÇÃO: MACAU NA OBRA DO ESCRITOR NEERLANDÊS JAN JACOB SLAUERHOFF (1898-1936) This article analyzes the function of Macau in the work of the Dutch writer Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (1898-1936), arguing that the city serves as a point of refuge and inspiration within an aesthetic of the decline of Western culture between the two world wars. The approach is historical-literary and biographical: it reads Slauerhoff’s itinerary—from his contact with Macau in 1927–1930 to the incorporation of the city into the genesis of *Het verboden rijk* (*The Forbidden Kingdom*, 1932), including the dedication and prologue of the novel—in relation to Portuguese sources on Macau (*Historic Macao*) and to the biography of Camões as a repertoire of historical images. The analysis situates the work within a current of interwar cultural thought that, influenced by Oswald Spengler, reads Western history as an organism subject to birth, peak, decline, and death; and that, through Reinhold Schneider (*Das Leiden des Camões*), associates Camões with the figure of an empire in decay. Slauerhoff invokes Camões, the great explorers, and the geography of Macau to sustain a literary identity that resists civilizational dissolution. Macau thus emerges as a locus for reflection on the Orientalization of Portuguese culture and, at the same time, as a source of poetic identities and fictional plots. The article concludes that the refuge/inspiration of Macau makes it possible to understand the interface between historical critique, imperial memory, and aesthetic creation in the author’s work. Instituto Cultural de Macau Macau Review of Culture Articles July 2003 Arie Pos |
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| title_short | PONTO DE REFÚGIO E INSPIRAÇÃO: MACAU NA OBRA DO ESCRITOR NEERLANDÊS JAN JACOB SLAUERHOFF (1898-1936) |
| title_sort | ponto de refúgio e inspiração: macau na obra do escritor neerlandês jan jacob slauerhoff (1898-1936) |
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