MURILO MENDE’S HERETICAL CATHOLICISM THROUGH THE UNPUBLISHED LETTERS (1930-1953) WRITTEN TO ALCEU AMOROSO LIMA

Abstract

In the poet’s collection at the Murilo Mendes Museum, at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (ufjf), 50 documents are preserved, including 39 letters, three telegrams, four notes and three postcards written by Murilo Mendes to Alceu Amoroso Lima, among 1930 and 1974. The correspondence is characterized by two main intertwined aspects: the author’s complex religiosity and Murilo’s sending of poems to the one who, at the same time as he was the first to officiality write about his work, was also considered the greatest literary critic of that time.