Murilo Rubião
Murilo Eugênio Rubião [ mu'rilu ew'ʒeniw ʁubi'ɐ̃w ] (born June 1, 1916 in Carmo de Minas , Minas Gerais , † September 16, 1991 in Belo Horizonte ) was a Brazilian writer .
Life
Murilo Rubião lived mostly in Belo Horizonte, where he graduated from the Law Faculty of the Universidade de Minas Gerais (today Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais ) in 1942 . In addition to his influential work as a journalist, he was head of cabinet in the Juscelino Kubitschek government from 1951 , when the latter was governor of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. From 1956 to 1961 he was Brazilian cultural attaché in Spain.
plant
Unusually for a Brazilian writer, Rubião wrote all of his work in the form of fantastic short stories and narratives. Although Rubião first discovered the work of Franz Kafka after he had already published a large part of his stories as newspaper articles in the late 1940s, he was often compared to the Czech writer. In Rubião's work, too, the absurd is a metaphor for the absurd in human existence, but is expressed in paradoxically simple and clear forms.
Works
- O ex-mágico (1947) (The ex-magician)
- A estrela vermelha (1953) (The red star)
- Os dragões e outros contos (1965) (The dragons and other stories)
- O pirotécnico Zacarias (1974) (The Fireworker Zacharias)
- O convidado (1974) (The Invited One )
- A casa do girassol vermelho (1978) (The house of the red sunflower)
- O homem do boné cinzento e outras histórias (1990) (The man in the gray cap and other stories)
- Contos reunidos (2005) (Collected Stories)
literature
- Regina Castro-McGowan: A retórica do fantástico: Murilo Rubião e Jorges Luis Borges, around caso comparativo . In: LLJournal. 2007, Twelfth Annual Graduate Students' Conference on Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages.
Web links
- Literature by and about Murilo Rubião in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website about Murilo Rubião , Portuguese
- Biography in the Enciclopédia Itaú Cultura l , Portuguese
- Short biography , Portuguese
Individual evidence
- ^ Murilo Rubião (1916–1991). In: www.terra.com.br. Terra Networks Brasil SA, archived from the original ; Retrieved January 19, 2012 (Brazilian Portuguese).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rubião, Murilo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rubião, Murilo Eugênio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carmo de Minas , Minas Gerais |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 1991 |
| Place of death | Belo Horizonte |