João Guimarães Rosa Quote
— Estamos chegando no córrego. Vamos lá...— Vigia só como a cheia está alta. A água quando dando na metade do ingazeiro!... Qu’é do barranco? Sumiu, está vendo?— Virgem! E agaranto que em até de noite ainda sobe mais... A lua não é boa... Ano acabando em seis...— A enchente está vindo de desde as cabeceiras: senão não descia tanta folha de buriti...— Pois diz-se que tem quatro dias que lá nas nascentes não para de chover.
João Guimarães Rosa
— Estamos chegando no córrego. Vamos lá...— Vigia só como a cheia está alta. A água quando dando na metade do ingazeiro!... Qu’é do barranco? Sumiu, está vendo?— Virgem! E agaranto que em até de noite ainda sobe mais... A lua não é boa... Ano acabando em seis...— A enchente está vindo de desde as cabeceiras: senão não descia tanta folha de buriti...— Pois diz-se que tem quatro dias que lá nas nascentes não para de chover.
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About João Guimarães Rosa
João Guimarães Rosa (Portuguese: [ʒuˈɐ̃w ɡimɐˈɾɐ̃jz ˈʁɔzɐ, ˈʒwɐ̃w -]; 27 June 1908 – 19 November 1967) was a Brazilian novelist, short story writer, poet and diplomat.
Rosa only wrote one novel, Grande Sertão: Veredas (known in English as The Devil to Pay in the Backlands), a revolutionary text for its blend of archaic and colloquial prose and frequent use of neologisms, taking inspiration from the spoken language of the Brazilian backlands. For its profoundly philosophical themes, the critic Antonio Candido described the book as a "metaphysical novel". It is often considered to be the Brazilian equivalent of James Joyce's Ulysses.In a 2002, poll by the Bokklubben World Library, "Grande Sertão: Veredas" was named among the best 100 books of all time. Rosa also published four books of short stories in his lifetime, all of them revolving around the life in the sertão, but also addressing themes of universal literature and of existential nature. He died in 1967 — the year he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature —, victim of a heart attack.
Rosa only wrote one novel, Grande Sertão: Veredas (known in English as The Devil to Pay in the Backlands), a revolutionary text for its blend of archaic and colloquial prose and frequent use of neologisms, taking inspiration from the spoken language of the Brazilian backlands. For its profoundly philosophical themes, the critic Antonio Candido described the book as a "metaphysical novel". It is often considered to be the Brazilian equivalent of James Joyce's Ulysses.In a 2002, poll by the Bokklubben World Library, "Grande Sertão: Veredas" was named among the best 100 books of all time. Rosa also published four books of short stories in his lifetime, all of them revolving around the life in the sertão, but also addressing themes of universal literature and of existential nature. He died in 1967 — the year he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature —, victim of a heart attack.