O Continente e Ilíada : metamorfoses do mito

Abstract

The contemporary literature, the myths and the ancestral epic poems differ on multiple points, as the production context, the gender, the themes, the purposes; however when the works O Continente and Ilíada are analyzed, starting from the adaptation of references from Genette on transtextuality and Benjamin on allegory, ancestral fragments are discovered and voices of men end women from Greece and Troy in traffic for Santa Fé are heard. In these narratives there are similarities among the characteristics of the primordial mythical universes, where heroes challenge conventions for impossible loves and risk their lives for their communities. In these works, the allegorical game hides the suffering as a portray of the human fragility; draws the illustration of the death as a spectrum of the destruction and the reconstruction of the ruins of the history; immortalizes the qualities, the greatness and the heroism of a time immersed in the beginning of the foundation of the cultural contexts built by their characters. Under the optics of Erico Verissimo, the history of the family Terra Cambará integrates the history of Continente de São Pedro during the construction of their bases in a heroic past. In Ilíada, heroes and demigods struggle in victories and defeats in a saga that reminds to the origins of the civilizations, of the mythology and of the universal history