Os quatro elementos: Murilo Mendesdialetical liricism / Os quatro elementos: o lirismo dialético de Murilo Mendes
AUTOR(ES)
Carlos Eduardo Ortolan Miranda
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2009
RESUMO
Our work aims at presenting a monographic study of 1935 Murilo Mendes´ book, Os Quatro Elementos. Picking that subject was motivated by original characteristics of the book, and also by the inexistence of critical inquiries regarding the piece. These particular aspects are analysed more extensively in the Introduction. Then, our study moves on to carefully analysing of some poems of the book, in which we try to identify some of the major themes of Murilo Mendes´s poetry (religion, eroticism, mythological aspects, the influence of Surrealism, humour). It also adresses philosophical aspects that are central to the understanding of the poet, such as the relationship between History and Transcendence. Finally, our analysis focuses on the unique character of Murilo Mendes´work in comparison to his Modernist contemporaries using that as means to explain the silence of our literary criticism about this specific masterpiece.
ASSUNTO(S)
murilo mendes literatura brasileira murilo mendes modernism modernismo brazilian literature
