An immensely ruined splendor: for a concept of poverty and brief notes on Murilo Rubião's work

Abstract

The paper aims to conceptualize the term poverty having as main subjacent notion the George Bataille’s writes related with the necessity of parity in the western economy, as well as the imperative in dismantles it to clouding the sterility, i.e., creation. Since then, it will examine four Murilo Rubi~o’s stories – placing them, in the end, in contrast to the poem "A ingaia ciência" from Carlos Drummond de Andrade – to note how, as opposed to the poet, the storywriter does not adopt a melancholic posture related to the gift’s inexistence by constituting, in his writings, an immensely ruined splendor, as Bataille’s concept.