Sombras nocturnas: crepitações em torno de candlelight visit e da caverna de Platão n’O Mundo no Arame
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https://doi.org/10.51427/com.est.2022.0003Keywords:
Shadow, Plato’s Cave, Torchlight Visit, Werner FassbinderAbstract
The torchlight visit and the shadow that falls from a sculpture give life to an artistic-literary tradition from the 16th century to the 19th century that finds in the shadow more than a mere effect, oscillating between the theatrical mechanism and the allegorical device. Yet, it is mainly in the 20th century that the possibilities for what shadows can be as shadows find their highest expression, namely under the yoke of cinema and meta-text: shadows gain the capacity to create ontological meaning about, for and from within themselves. A film by Werner Fassbinder, by the name of World on a Wire (1973), is the bridge to a new plethora of meanings and simulacra that underlie the idea of the modern shadow, in which Plato’s Cave prepares the man for sublimation.
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