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consisted of approximately ten always present: we see his as an artist. There's a mimetic
or eleven Portuguese individuals drawings, his paintings, the side to it, but also a certain
and an equal number from the women he lived with, and the “cannibalism” of Gauguin, so
Tahitian film industry. And natives and colonizers he met. to speak. It has a lot to do with
there was this question: why are Victor Segalen, on the other artistic aspects and also with
Portuguese people making a film hand, unravels the mysteries the way in which some things
in Tahiti about a French writer, of the French painter's are, in a way, negotiated between
about a research project by this presence and lets himself be generations: Segalen is a young
writer and doctor that represents dominated by his habits. It's man at the time, 25 years old
a significant moment in Victor as if he takes on the persona when he arrives on the islands.
Segalen's life, in his definition of the deceased! There's almost And there's a difference in the age
from a philosophical and artistic an osmosis between the living he was when he died, so there's an
point of view, in the question protagonist, Segalen, and age difference. There's a process
of exoticism and the colonial the dead protagonist, Paul like that: he embodies Paul
question? We were in a curious Gauguin. Do you agree with Gauguin, a process of...
position! What is very seductive this idea?
about Segalen's character is his Hugo Vieira da Silva: Yes, that Paulo MilHomens: Mimesis!
genuine intention to listen to was the idea! If you read Segalen,
others. it's a kind of initiation journey; Hugo Vieira da Siva: Mimesis,
he's looking for Gauguin and also I wouldn't say, but perhaps an
Gauguin is a kind of ghost, to find himself, to define himself embodiment of Gauguin. In

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