SONRÍE CHINA BY RAFAEL ALBERTI: A STUDY OF IMAGOLOGY

Abstract

The book Sonríe China includes the poems written by Alberti according to what he saw and felt after his visit to China in the 1950s, which are full of his understanding and experience of Chinese culture and new Chinese style after the field experience. Based on the text, from the perspective of comparative literature figurology, this paper will process poetry through the investigation of otherness as a configurator of identity, analyze the relationship between "China", the reconstructed subject, and its noumenon, the reflection from "other" to "self, and the breakthrough of the boundary between them in writing. It will become a possible research paradigm for mutual learning between Chinese and Western civilizations.