Fabulação e metamorfose nos contos de Murilo Rubião

Abstract

This study presents metamorphosis as a thematic and metalinguistic element in the short stories of Murilo Rubião. It aims to demonstrate the fragmentation of personality of the modern man in the short stories: O ex-mágico da Taberna Minhota, O pirotécnico Zacarias, Os dragões, Teleco, o coelhinho e Alfredo whose themes manifest the fable of metamorphosis. These tales also reveal internal features of the work of the writer such as the rewriting of the tales, epigraphic intertextuality and cyclical writing. Under the veil of the fantastic, the short stories reveal existential reflections with which readers can identify. Through the indifference and stagnation of some characters of the tales, they reveal the reluctance of individuals and the difficulty of social relationships. Finally, it is concluded that the Fantastic is a type of literature that can allow for a critical stance towards events. The natural fabulation of human beings offers the ability, therefore, to build alternate realities that reflect new meanings in the relationship between man and society.