Who will be? Sagarana and the call of mystery, darkness and love

Authors

  • Ermelinda Maria Araújo Ferreira Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/va.v0i29.102861

Keywords:

Guimarães Rosa, Sagarana, medicine, science, shadows, blindness

Abstract

Sagarana marks the debut of a small-town doctor in crisis, depressed by a paltry second place result in his first literary competition. About to leave the profession and the dream in order to dedicate himself to the bureaucratic service in the Foreign Ministry, Guimarães Rosa triggers his viator destination: taken to strange places, he becomes familiar with the sublime and the grotesque, through the discovery of the generous love of Ara and of the fescenine hatred of Hitler. Back in Brazil, the rewriting of this book points to a shift in the perception of the author; who chooses rather to embrace the mysteries of the great “sertão” than to depart from them in the name of a rational and dogmatic science, without love and spirit: soulless.

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Author Biography

  • Ermelinda Maria Araújo Ferreira, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
    Formada em Medicina e Letras, professora doutora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras e do Departamento de Letras da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). Pesquisadora do CNPq. Colaboradora do IeMo, Instituto de Estudos Modernistas da Universidade de Lisboa, e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura e Interculturalidade da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB). Editora da Intersemiose -revista digital.

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Published

2016-09-27

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 1 (2016): Tecidos do humano - literatura e medicina

Section

Dossiê 29: Tecidos do Humano - Literatura e Medicina

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How to Cite

FERREIRA, Ermelinda Maria Araújo. Who will be? Sagarana and the call of mystery, darkness and love. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, v. 17, n. 1, p. 189–205, 2016. DOI: 10.11606/va.v0i29.102861. Disponível em: https://journals.usp.br/viaatlantica/article/view/102861.. Acesso em: 1 jun. 2024.