Urban spaces, removed spaces in Murilo Mendes

Abstract

This study is an analysis of book Carta-Geográfica by Murilo Mendes, to perceive how the writer relates himself to the cities he visited in actual fact and revisited literarily. The intention is to perceive the metamorphoses undergone by the cities and the different ways they happen. The first one, when the city reappears in another, as when the sky above Juiz de Fora in 1910 is seen above Naples. The second, when the European cities move to Juiz de Fora, in the books read by the boy Murilo. And finally, when the same city presents internal metamorphoses, according to the functions that each urban context has to perform. In this way a transit between the cities is created, each one being reinterpreted and reread in contact both with the other and with itself. Key-words: Transit. City. Surrealism.