Íntimos arquipélagos: la aforística en Cadernos de João de Aníbal Machado y la poética de la archipelización

Authors

  • Miriam Lay Brander Universität Konstanz

Abstract

Based on the aphoristic work Cadernos de João (1957) by Brazilian writer Aníbal Machado, this article reflects on the relationship between aphorism and the poetics of archipelization whose main features have been outlined by Gaston Bachelard, the French Surrealists, and most notably by French Caribbean writer Edouard Glissant. We postulate that Cadernos de João anticipates an aphoristic postcolonial writing inclined to the intuitive, the unexpected, and the fragmentary, thus reflecting a world in a condition of archipelization.

Keywords:

Aníbal Machado, Brazilian literature, aphorism, poetics of archipelization