Birds, Rivers, Book: Material Mimesis in João Guimarães Rosa's Grande sertão: veredas.
In his only novel, Grande sertão: veredas (1956), João Guimarães Rosa combines a detailed, complex exploration of the physical characteristics, fauna, and flora of the region where the novel is set with a keen concern about the acts of narrating and reading. As this article argues, both preoccupatio...
| Publicado en: | Luso-Brazilian Review Vol. 57; no. 1; pp. 125 - 150 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
2020
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