By Graciliano Ramos
Como a paisagem arida e impiedosa do sertao nordestino, esta narrativa se vale apenas do essencial. Para o autor, o mundo nao libera encantos, as paisagens sao apenas pontos de referencia entre os quais os personagens se movem. Essa linguagem crua e despojada esta fortemente presente nessa obra que tem a forca de uma tragedia rural brasileira e conta a historia de Paulo Honorio, um homem simples que, movido por uma ambicao sem limites, acaba por se transformar num grande fazendeiro do sertao alagoano e casa-se com Madalena para conseguir um herdeiro. Incapaz de entender a otica humanitaria pela qual a mulher ve o mundo, ele tenta anula-la com seu autoritarismo. Com esse personagem, Graciliano traca o perfil da vida e do carater de um homem impolite e egoista, do jogo de poder e do vazio da solidao, onde nao ha espaco nem para a amizade, nem para o amor.
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Graciliano Ramos
Author profile
born
in Quebrangulo/Alagoas, Brazil
October 27, 1892
died
March 20, 1953
gender
male
genre
Literature & Fiction
About this author
Graciliano Ramos used to be largely one of an important Brazilian authors of the twentieth century. He used to be a seminal voice within the literary "regionalism" movement.
As a toddler Ramos lived in lots of towns of Northeastern Brazil, affected by poverty and serious climatic conditions (droughts). After high-school, Graciliano went to Rio de Janeiro the place he labored as a journalist. In 1915 he traveled to Palmeira dos Indios, kingdom of Alagoas, to reside together with his father and in 1927 he used to be elected mayor.
In 1933 he released his first publication, Caetés. many years later he was once jailed through the Getúlio Vargas govt, on a cost that was once by no means made transparent. His reviews in reformatory might develop into a different own deposition, Memórias do Cárcere.
Graciliano died in 1953, on the age of 60. His "dry" form of writing and the clash among the identification and the realm are the numerous marks of his works.
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Why? Thomasina: Everything is turned to love with her. New love, absent love, lost love I never knew a heroine that makes such noodles of our sex. It only needs a Roman general to drop anchor outside the window and away goes the empire like a christening mug into a pawn shop. If Queen Elizabeth had been a Ptolemy history would have been quite different -we would be admiring the pyramids of Rome and the great Sphinx of Verona. Septimus: God save us. Thomasina: But instead, the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue.
You got them backwards, darling. Caroline was Romantic waffle on wheels with no talent, and Byron was an eighteenth-century Rationalist touched by genius. And he killed Chater. Hannah: (Pause) If it's not too late to change my mind, I'd like you to go ahead. Bernard: I intend to. Look to the mote in your own eye! - you even had the wrong bloke on the dust-jacket! Hannah: Dust-jacket? Valentine: What about my computer model? Aren't you going to mention it? Bernard: It's inconclusive. Valentine: (To Hannah) The Piccadilly reviews aren't a very good fit with Byron's other reviews, you see.
It's no fun when it's not among pros, is it? Hannah: No. Bernard: Oh, well. . (he begins to put his lecture sheets away in his briefcase, and is thus reminded. ) do you want to know about your book jacket? 'Lord Byron and Caroline Lamb at the Royal Academy'? Ink study by Henry Fuseli? Hannah: What about it? Bernard: It's not them. Hannah: (She explodes) Who says!? ) Bernard: This Fuseli expert in the Byron Society Journal. They sent me the latest... as a distinguished guest speaker. Hannah: But of course it's them!