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João Guimarães Rosa made his debut in Brazilian letters with Sagarana (1946; translated, 1966), a volume of short stories that appeared to be fashioned in the perennially popular regiona...
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Critical Essay by Jorge Amado
I can recall only one instance of a greater impact on contemporary Brazilian literature than that produced by the books of Guimarães Rosa: the publication of Gilbe...
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Critical Essay by Mary L. Daniel
The isolated backlands of the interior Brazilian state of Minas Gerais—its cowboys, outlaws, and primitive dirt farmers—these are the raw material of [Jo...
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Critical Essay by The Virginia Quarterly Review
"The Devil to Pay in the Backlands" deserves [acclaim]…. Rosa has written nothing less than a twentieth-century Brazilian "I...
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Critical Essay by William L. Grossman
[João Guimarães Rosa] has given depth, new vigor, and a sort of universal applicability to the regionalism that characterized much of Brazil'...
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Critical Essay by Alexander Coleman
["Sagarana," Guimarães Rosa's first book,] marks the beginning of a new direction for Brazilian letters. In search of a valid setting an...
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Critical Essay by Luis Harss and Barbara Dohmann
[In Brazil the regionalists] took over the literary scene in the twenties and thirties and have practically monopolized it ever since. Unlike the urban...
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Critical Essay by Alexander Coleman
["The Third Bank of the River"] takes on even more poignance than it already possesses with the death last November of Guimarães Rosa, a distin...
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Critical Essay by Donald A. Yates
The Third Bank of the River contains twenty-two stories that average around ten pages in length. Reversing the Latin American inclination toward prolixity, toward usi...
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Critical Essay by Gregory Rabassa
One of Rosa's great contributions to Brazilian literature was to broaden the horizons of the language to a degree never seen before, not even during the invent...
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Joao Guimaraes Rosa
Critical Essay by Jorge Amado
