João Guimarães Rosa
Publisher: L'Harmattan
Published: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Poetry; Dr. Faustus
Genres: Poetics; Critics
Description: This book analyses the master-work of Guimarães Rosa, the novel Grande Sertão: Veredas (The devil to pay in the backlands). Under the cover of a regional novel, Rosa discusses problems related to langage, from Saussure's linguistic theories to Plato's dialogues. The most intriguing question arises from the mysterious death of the novelist: did he conclude a deal with Devil or did he just previously write his ending page?
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