O tropismo tropical dos malditos franceses

Abstract

Tropo, tropism, and tropical are terms that share the same etymological root, referring simultaneously to rotation and movement. The borderline experience of forms, language and affection led the “damned” Frenchmen to make of the “tropo”, of the rhetorical figure, a power of becoming and of metamorphosis that put them in contact with the Tropics’ vitality, imagined or real.