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Amor, Medo e Salvação: Aproximações Entre Valdomiro Silveira e Guimarães Rosa

1996; Universidade de São Paulo. Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros; Issue: 41 Linguagem: Inglês

10.11606/issn.2316-901x.v0i41p97-122

2316-901X

Suzi Frankl Sperber,

Linguistics and Education Research

Valdomiro Silveira reduces his narrative "Salvation" to a story of animals. Nevertheless, it is not a fable. This tale can be included in the set of works that, afraid to express eroticism, conceals love with fear. "A hora e vez de Augusto Matraga" does not disguise eroticism and gives sense to athe characters and to the text, interwaving a few little genres: the so-called saga nordestina (Brazilian northest saga, in fact cordel); hagiography; the theme of the "Erring Jew" and the parable. The power of Sagarana´s tales come from the systematic utilization of the little genres, found in orality. They work as a basis both for the production and the reception of texts and enunciations. Orality, which serves to show the hick as capable of deep spirituality, is also a supporting resource of the religious secret.