SYSIFUS’ ETERNAL DEED: RELATIONAL READINGS AMONG MURILO RUBIÃO’S SHORT-STORIES AND CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGICAL TRADITION

Abstract

Taking into account the several testimonies given by Murilo Rubião, a Brazilian author of 33 unusual short-stories that ended up, for a long time, shadowed in the history of the letters of his own country, testimonies in which he claims to have been influenced by a repertoire of readings that appear in the Western canon – among them, classic compositions from the Greek-Roman mythological tradition – when in the making of his literature, this article has as greater purposes: i) the investigation of the dialogue established in the short-stories with other literary texts from the sources claimed as available by the author; and, shortly thereafter, ii) the development of relational readings, aiming at the final assessment of the possible effects intended by him due to the contact of these works.