Tough hides call for a sharp goad: on violence in The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
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https://doi.org/10.22409/pragmatizes.v10i18.38867Keywords:
Guimarães Rosa, The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, poetics of evil, fear, violenceAbstract
This paper presents a reading of The Devil to Pay in the Backlands that relates the novel with the tradition of the “poetics of evil” and builds on a broader approach we’ve been developing. It consists of an interpretation that takes fear as a thematic and structural element in Guimarães Rosa’s novel. Thus, our proposition is to take violence as our main subject and put forth an analysis that relates it with the element of fear. Our hypothesis is that violence is also a fundamental component in Riobaldo’s narrative, emerging, at times, as a byproduct of the protagonist’s fears, but also as a way of reconciling and overcoming his terrors.
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