“LIVE IS VERY DANGEROUS”: LARGE ESTATES AND VIOLENCE IN ‘GRANDE SERTÃO: VEREDAS’

Abstract

In Grande Sertão: Veredas, the way of narrating is contaminated by life experience (always in contact with death) of the gunman Riobaldo in the backcountry plagued by violence and dominated by large estates and the Colonels, but is also contaminated by crossing class why passes the protagonist. In this sense, this study develops the argument of James Ginzburg, for who Riobaldo’s experience under the imminence of death, depending on their gunman condition, decisively affects their subjectivity, preventing a stable and/or neutral look for the raw narrated. The risk of death conjugates the diabolical character of Riobaldo’s experience, marked by error and disorder. Also in relation to the narrative organization of the novel, I present the argument that the aspect that ensures the power of storytelling to Riobaldo is not his gunman condition, but is primarily his condition of landowner.