O jogo semântico entre o fantástico e a morte na obra de Murilo Rubião

Abstract

The intention of this work is to demonstrate how Murilo Rubião presents strategies that explain the acute semantic game between the fantastic and the advent of death, at times involved in the semiotization process. These strategies mobilize, simultaneously, the narrative categories, thus enabling an interpretation of death as a sign of the clash between individuals and society. As the objective, we will investigate the critical path of the Rubinian work, evaluating, mainly, the relevance of the meaning of death in his stories, supported in discussions about his theories of representation and semiotization, as well as those concerning the fantastic. Subsequently, Rubião’s tales will be divided into groups, in accordance with the character that covers death, and the three stories – “O pirotécnico Zacarias”, “A noiva da casa azul”, and “Petúnia” – will be analyzed based on the theoretical support elaborated throughout this dissertation, demonstrating the convergence of the narrative categories that trigger the fantastic in the work of the Minas Gerais author.