Murilo Mendes e o cosmotexto ideogramático

Abstract

This article intends to reflect on the way in which Murilo Mendes' poetical works, which are protoformic in their own bases, are changed to such an extent that they surprise us, with the last book published during his life, with a radical transformation on the level of the dominant rhetorical principles. The path which is analysed is thus that of a poetry which abandons the metaphor as a matricial figure of discourse to dedicate itself to the playful anamorphosis of significance, or rather, to dedicate itself essentially to the rhetorical operations of a metaplasmatic nature, which have paranomasia as a central and regulating feature.