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A Violência em Grande Sertão: Veredas

1992; Universidade de São Paulo. Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros; Issue: 34 Linguagem: Inglês

10.11606/issn.2316-901x.v0i34p87-99

2316-901X

Jaime Ginzburg,

Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies

This study tries to examine violence in João Guimarães Rosa´s novel Grande Sertão Veredas. In this book, the violence is evaluated by the narrator, Riobaldo, sometimes as an external phenomenon, considered strange and coondemned, and sometimes as a subjective interest, in that case associated to pleasure. From this duality results an abiguous conception of justice. This subject is examined considering its relations with the following topics - the devil, the life in groups of "jagunços" and the forbidden passion - and also with aspects of the narrative structure.