The essay deals with the relation between the eighteenth century rise of the idea of the “Orient” and (more or less credible) forgeries, starting from the work of a famous impostor, who pretended to be from the Far East and published The Description of Formosa in 1704. Just at the time when the novel was questioning the idea of narrating the true and the authentic, Oriental tales had to do with fabrications and false identities, both real and literary, in epistolary exchanges and in the assumption of an oriental point of view on Western civilization.

Falsi orientali

INNOCENTI, Loretta
2007-01-01

Abstract

The essay deals with the relation between the eighteenth century rise of the idea of the “Orient” and (more or less credible) forgeries, starting from the work of a famous impostor, who pretended to be from the Far East and published The Description of Formosa in 1704. Just at the time when the novel was questioning the idea of narrating the true and the authentic, Oriental tales had to do with fabrications and false identities, both real and literary, in epistolary exchanges and in the assumption of an oriental point of view on Western civilization.
2007
L’Oriente. Storia di una figura nelle arti occidentali (1700-2000)
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