In 1974 Glauber Rocha wrote "The birth of the Gods" for the Italian television, an adaptation of Anabasis, the classical work of Xenophon. Recently published in Portuguese, this script guided a research in the author's archives in order to investigate the anti-conventional creative process of the artist. The comparative observation of Glauber´s films and published essays with notes, drafts, sketches and fragments, preserved at Tempo Glauber, show the potent aesthetic and political effect produced by the complex articulation of unexpected subjects and different cultural references. The critical analysis of these documents of Glauber's artistic activity highlight the impressive fabulatory power present in his work.
fabulatory process; archives; writing production; political-critic art