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Grande Sertão: Veredas

João Guimarães Rosa

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Oct 30, 2011 Jenn Avery rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: body-politics, the-devil, masculinity

The Devil to Pay is the first Brazilian novel that I've ever read and it is one of the most explicit and beautiful explorations of gender and sexuality in literature: particularly of masculinity and male love. (It's a shame that it's out of print.)

In short, the narrator is Riobaldo who, like Scheherazade from One Thousand and One Nights, seems to be storytelling as away to save his life. The narrative is winding, out of order, repetitive and somewhat unreliable but it functions as a way to learn ...more

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Oct 06, 2009 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: brazilian-literature

Nesta obra de Guimarães Rosa, o sertão é visto e vivido de uma maneira subjetiva e profunda, e não apenas como uma paisagem a ser descrita, ou como uma série de costumes que parecem pitorescos. Sua visão resulta de um processo de integração total entre o autor e a temática, e dessa integração a linguagem é o reflexo principal. Para contar o sertão, Guimarães Rosa utiliza-se do idioma do próprio sertão, falado por Riobaldo em sua extensa e perturbadora narrativa.Encontramos em Grande Sertão-Vered ...more

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