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A masterpiece by João Guimarães Rosa, Grande Sertão: Veredas is a lyrical epic of the Brazilian sertão narrated by Riobaldo, a former jagunço who recalls his life of adventures, passions, and moral conflicts in a poetic dialogue with an invisible listener. Rosa reinvents the Portuguese language, creating a narrative in which the sertão is the stage for profound reflections on good and evil, love and death.
With its inventive prose full of lyricism, the novel transcends regionalism to reach mythological and universal dimensions, establishing itself as one of the greatest achievements of Brazilian literature.
| Author | João Guimarães Rosa |
|---|---|
| Year of publication | 1956 |
| Pages | 600 |
”Grande sertão: veredas, a text of extraordinary lyricism, also speaks of Brazilian violence and of the sertão, of armed groups, of so-called political groups, of the jagunços and the settling of scores, of barbarism”
