The Synthesis Novel in Latin America: A Study on João Guimarães Rosa's Grande Sertão: Veredas

Eduardo de Faria Coutinho's analysis of Grande Sertão: Veredas places the novel at the intersection of experience, literary history, and artistry. Walking the text's balance between the real and the imaginary, and focusing his reading on the thread of ambivalence that snakes its way throughout, Coutinho weaves together the text's dichotomies between ethics and aesthetics, rural regionalism and urban universalization, and socioeconomic and psychological epistemologies. This book also serves to place Grande Sertão: Veredas in the trajectory of the history of the Latin American novel, creating an accessible point of entry to the genre, and grounding the text firmly within the literary tradition.

Author: Eduardo De Faria Coutinho
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies
Published: 01/01/1991
Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatu #237
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d
ISBN: 9780807892411