FronteiraZ (Dec 2012)
Cidades que em nós se fazem: Lisboa - Livro de Bordo (1997) José Cardoso Pires como ‘entre-lugar’
Abstract
A reading of Cardoso Pires’ Lisbon Logbook (1997) in the light of the writings of Walter Benjamin and Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities (1972) reveals the complexity of this hybrid text. It is not only reflective about the discursive construction of plural ‘Lisbons’ but also creative. Through collage and ‘oral writing’ a kind of illustrated conversation is created where literary theory and practice interact and culminate (following Benjamin and Calvino), in an allegorical reflection on the craft of writing. The problem of the Great City as a place of memory leads to the book (text and picture) as ‘space between’ that claims the legibility of the city.
