GRANDE SERTÃO

After reading Grande Sertão:Veredas, Guimarães Rosa’s famous novel, I noticed that this is one of the best book I had read all my student life. Thus, I decided to report my impressions about this wonderful novel of brazilian literary generation post 45. This is a classic book that recounts in peculiar way the trajectory of the protagonist Riobaldo, a man who decides to escape after the involvement of his supposed father Selorico Mendes with a woman, to become bandit in the wilderness mining in the late nineteenth century, with the goal of fighting for the chief Zé Bebelo, in addiction to state his individuality, in an exclusive an peculiar way, emphasizing also the moments of love conflicts suffered by the narrator throughout the story, principally as regards the romance that Riobaldo had with Diadorim, at the same time that the protagonist remembering the relationship wich had with other women throughout the life, especially Otacília who he married with later. Worth mentioning also the trips that Riobaldo did with the group of bandits in Minas Gerais Northern, Goias and Early Bahia. In the first time, I note the use of the speech’s first person as a way to dialogue with the reader, so that the latter reflects about the narrator’s communication throughout the story. For me, it is the fundamental aspect in the text.Another interesting aspect to remember are Riobaldo’s flashbacks, presented there in a cinematography way, giving the impression that we are watching the life of protagonist. In many times, I was moved a lot with Tatarana’s reports. I make salient the passage I believe that is the most beautiful in this brazilian literary icon. It is the moment that Riobaldo, still in the childhood, passed in a river in Minas Gerais interior.