João Guimarães Rosa, Grande Sertão: Veredas [The Devil to Pay in the Backlands]

Paulo Moreira (Yale University)

Ed. by Ben Bollig, University of Oxford
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 5.1.2: Brazilian Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Carolina Orloff (Independent Scholar - Europe)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1956

Places

Brazil (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Grande Sertão: Veredas (translated as the The Devil to Pay in the Backlands) is arguably the greatest novel in Portuguese in the 20^th century and one of the greatest from Latin America. João Guimarães Rosa had initially planned the story told by Riobaldo as another novella to be included in the monumental collection he called Corpo de Baile, a mammoth collection of seven 100-page stories, which has been published in three separate volumes since 1964 (Manuelzão e Miguilim, Noites do Sertão, and No Urubuquaquá, no Pinhém). However, as Guimarães Rosa explained in a letter to his friend and fellow diplomat Ribeiro Couto on April 24, 1954, the draft of what was meant to be the …

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

779 words

Citation: Moreira, Paulo. "Grande Sertão: Veredas". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 August 2013 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=32183, accessed 23 November 2024.]

Save this article