As robinsonadas utópicas em Portugal e na Polónia. A Cidade do Sol (1926), de José Manuel Sarmento de Beires, e As Aventuras de Mikołaj Doświadczyński (Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki, 1776), do bispo Ignacy Krasicki, ou uma utopia pós-camoniana
Utopian Robinsonades in Portugal and in Poland: A cidadedosol (1926), byJosé Manuel Sarmento de Beires, and TheAdventuresofMr.NicholasWisdom (1776), by Bishop Ignacy Krasicki, or aNew Post-Camoenian Utopia in the Globalized World?

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the following utopian topoi: the Island of Love in the epic poem by Luís Vaz de Camões, the Island of Nipu in The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom (original title: Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki) by bishop Ignacy Krasicki and the city of the sun as imagined in A cidade do sol by José Manuel Sarmento de Beires. The discussion focuses on travel literature or utopian robinsonades in the context of a globalizing world, as well as the history of the romance genre, starting in Poland (1776) and developed in Portugal (1926). After the term and the concept of utopia have been thoroughly worked-out standing from the bucolic episode supra of The Lusiads (Os Lusíadas, 1572), we propose to consider the two utopian robinsonades in question as late transformations of the pattern and the functionality of locus amoenus, with a possible social connotation (in Poland) and a political meaning (in Portugal), even though the historic background seems hidden in the respective layers of narrative discourse. It should be very interesting to perceive, too, to what extent the utopian romanesque structure captures the state of spirit of a people in the moment of triumph and also in the generalized national depression of heroes, travellers, colonists, priests, aviators et al. – in one word, of the antique and contemporary Robinsons.

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