Sagarana

work by Guimarães Rosa

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In Brazilian literature: The novel
Sagarana), a haunting collection of stories about the people of the sertão (backlands) of Minas Gerais state. An erudite and compassionate artist, Guimarães Rosa used language that incorporated elements of oral tradition and was imbued with neologisms, inverted syntax, and lexical transformations. A “universal regionalist”…
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