%0 Journal Article
%T Da imperfei  o, ou o complexo de Babel
%A Lu¨ªs Adriano Carlos
%J CEM : Cultura, Espa£¿o & Mem¨®ria
%D 2010
%I Universidade do Porto, CITCEM
%X Based on a novel published in the beginning of the Millennium ¨C A Imperfei  o, by Jo o Paulo Sousa ¨C, the author critically reflects on the problem of ethic and aesthetic communication, framed by a reinterpretation of the myth of Babel as the symbolic and blessed origin of the cultural and literary universe. The novel¡¯s characters, taken to be symbols of contemporary society, struggle with the  imperfection of words , representing themselves as foreign beings devoured by the misunderstanding of communication. However, it is on the journey across the dream of a perfect language that they are marooned, victims of their unconditional belief in the ideology of identity and unicity that characterize our times of globalization.
%K Babel
%K Communication
%K Aesthetics
%K Imperfection
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