RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Murilo, o surrealismo e a religião
JF Luso-Brazilian Review
JO Luso-Braz Rev
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 107
OP 120
DO 10.3368/lbr.41.1.107
VO 41
IS 1
A1 Antelo, Raúl
YR 2004
UL http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/41/1/107.abstract
AB Murilo Mendes’s poetry shows a position balanced between, on the one hand, a scriptural Christianism that believes in a unique and sole truth—even though such a singularity may remain open to the indeterminacy of signifying systems—and, on the other hand, a hermeneutic relativism that rejects the idea that there be a final and definite truth. Nevertheless, in order to achieve that goal, it is necessary to analyze the Brazilian cultural atmosphere in which Murilo Mendes developed his ideas about religion and literature. This also involves a reconstruction of the European debate on these topics that took place among the French surrealists and dissidents.