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”And I read Fogo morto and Vidas secas as well.”
Vidas secas
Graciliano Ramos · 1938 · 88 pages
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Graciliano Ramos offers a fragmented and anguished account of the struggle for survival of a family of migrants in the sertão. Through chapters that alternate perspectives, the novel exposes the misery, hunger, and resignation of Fabiano, Sinha Vitória, and their children, men and women reduced to the essential, stripped of dignity and hope.
Written in dry, stripped-down prose that mirrors the desert it traverses, the work is an unrelenting denunciation of Brazilian social inequality and a literary monument to the silent resistance of the invisible, forever marking the country's literature of social denunciation.
Book details
| Author | Graciliano Ramos |
|---|---|
| Year of publication | 1938 |
| Pages | 88 |
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