Lúcio Cardoso in a mimetic perspective: a reading proposal of the Apocalipse project

Abstract

This paper aims to establish relations in between an unfinished project by Lúcio Cardoso, Apocalipse, and the mimetic theory developed by the french philosopher René Girard. We start the work emphasizing the continuous trace of the incompleteness in the fictional work of the writer from Minas Gerais. A lot of his idealized projects were not finalized. Therefore, files searching it seems to be a fruitfull attitude to understand his creative universe. After this moviment, we analyse the possible place of importance ocuped by the Apocalipse, that had its name changed on some occasions. Then we extract parts of the the material to proceed with a reading in a mimetic perspective.