A personificação do mal em Grande sertão : veredas de Guimarães Rosa

Abstract

This Master’s dissertation aimed to analyze and investigate the personification of evil in Grande Sertão: Veredas of Guimarães Rosa. (Great Wilderness): Paths of starting from that the religiosity in the work is present in Brazilian literature, and it is relevant at all times, because it concerns the popular culture of the people, with regional hinterlands traits. Addressing some ways how society prepares its imaginary about the demon figure, the devil figure often regulates the way of acting and thinking of the people according to the local culture in which they live, in this case the wilderness. The research Work of Grande Sertão: Veredas contributes to survey the specific situations of personification of evil and its main culture traits established by people who lived in a particular place. The analysis in its social-historical and cultural context is relevant to note and understand the interconnection and the interrelation of these situations of cultural regionalism and the relations of que religious phenomenon. For the academic field it means to deepen the knowledge of the religious phenomenon in relation to this literature concepts in the work Grande Sertão: Veredas contains narratives that reflect the realities of the existence of God and the Devil lived in the backcountry people culture. Here it can be seen the popular imagination in the devil figure, very present in the religious and popular culture in the work of Guimarães Rosa. Based on these principles, is intented to address the Devil’s existence raised by own narrator and protagonist, the roughneck Riobaldo. The devil appers throughout the work, in various metaphors or populars images involving good and evil, love and hate especially, saying and popular names of the devil and beliefs of religiosity present in the backcountry.