O ORIENTE E O SILÊNCIO NA POESIA DE RUI ROCHA羅世賢詩句中的東方與寂靜

The article analyzes how Rui Rocha’s poetry articulates “the Orient” and “silence” as aesthetic-philosophical principles, arguing that his writing subverts the Western tradition grounded in discursivity, logic, and the primacy of utterance. Taking as its starting point the work *A Oriente do Silênci...

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Published in:Review of Culture
Main Author: Victor Oliveira Mateus
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Published: Instituto Cultural de Macau 2013
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Online Access:https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40044/2419
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spelling O ORIENTE E O SILÊNCIO NA POESIA DE RUI ROCHA羅世賢詩句中的東方與寂靜
The article analyzes how Rui Rocha’s poetry articulates “the Orient” and “silence” as aesthetic-philosophical principles, arguing that his writing subverts the Western tradition grounded in discursivity, logic, and the primacy of utterance. Taking as its starting point the work *A Oriente do Silêncio*, the author contends that, already in the dedication, a structuring triad is delineated—the reverberation of an ancient China, the ethical mandate to be fulfilled in the succession of lovers, and the sovereignty of tones and writing—which permeates the entire book and relates to a mode of non-abrupt movement sustained by serenity and the continuity of “occurrence.” Methodologically, the analysis combines close reading of passages with a theoretical framework from the Zen tradition (associated with Mahāyāna/Chan Buddhism) to show how the notion of emptiness and the refusal of oppositions guide the poetic experience. It concludes that silence, far from functioning as a mere thematic device, operates as a territory of authenticity: between words and images, the poem instates an ethics of listening and rhythm, offering a worldview fundamentally distinct from the loquacity and artificiality of “showing.”
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Macau
Review of Culture
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2013
Victor Oliveira Mateus
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title_full_unstemmed O ORIENTE E O SILÊNCIO NA POESIA DE RUI ROCHA羅世賢詩句中的東方與寂靜
title_short O ORIENTE E O SILÊNCIO NA POESIA DE RUI ROCHA羅世賢詩句中的東方與寂靜
title_sort o oriente e o silêncio na poesia de rui rocha羅世賢詩句中的東方與寂靜
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