Looking for O caminho de Gilgamesh (Rio de Janeiro, 1937, Lisbon, 1967) or Gregorio Neynes’s semblance

Abstract

This paper discusses the book O Caminho de Gilgamesh: vestígios para a reconstituição de um bailado, published in 1937 by the pseudonym Gregorio Neynes, in Rio de Janeiro, and re­published in 1967, in Lisbon. Rare book, not included in histories of literature or Brazilian thought despite their presence in libraries and personal archives of Mario de Andrade and Guimarães Rosa, O Cami­nho de Gilgamesh is a constellation of aphorisms that are presented as the transcriptions of the steps of the Sumerian hero Gilgamesh. This article describes that constellation, the circumstance of his finding, and tries its inclusion in a literary series that allows legibility for Neynes’s book.

Keywords

• Neyes
• Guimarães Rosa
• Antropofagia
• Estilo vestigial
• Literatura brasileira