The Intermedial Muse: Literature and Anime (Bolaño and Oda)

Abstract

The following proposal has rehearsed a dialogue between the figure of the muse, between the disciplines of poetry and manganime, through an intermediate theoretical perspective with which an aesthetic, historical, and critical link between two artistic objects produced during the same decade has been propitiated: the poem “Muse” by Roberto Bolaño, published in 1993, and One Piece, by Eiichirō Oda, whose manga dates from 1997 and the animation from 1999. Through this intermediate practice, this paper has meditated on the confluences and divergences of these two objects, to highlight the everlasting figure of the muse as the engine of creative problematization and source of inspiration for artists.