PETÚNIA: ENCENAÇÕES DA LOUCURA NA LITERATURA FANTÁSTICA DE MURILO RUBIÃO

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze the short story “Petúnia”, by Murilo Rubião (2010), in order to understand the representation of madness, more specifically of psychosis, within the author's fantastic narrative. Supported by the existentialist vision of Sartre (2005) on the contemporary fantastic articulated with the psychoanalytic vision of Freud (2021), we propose a reading on the theme of madness, which presents itself in the form of psychosis, in the selected short story. To support our analysis, we rely on the psychoanalytic theory of Lacan (1999) on psychoses. This work is important for bringing a new perspective of reading about the work of Murilo Rubião, precursor of fantastic literature in Brazil.