The allegoriacal criticism of Grande Sertão

Abstract

An increasing number of studies based on the notion/concept of allegory on the work of Guimarães Rosa has been published recently, and some of them have had great repercussion and visibility in the academy for its seriousness and the originality in the analysis of its object; Our analysis contemplates three of these studies that consider the work of Guimarães Rosa, mainly Grande Sertão: veredas, as a historical, political and social allegory of Brazil: the studies of Heloisa Starling, Willi Bolle and Luiz Roncari, which recently, especially the last two, published inspired texts in this direction; These authors try to reinterpret Grande sertão: veredas based on the notion of allegory, particularly Walter Benjamin’s, establishing a parallel between Rosa’s novel and the studies of historians and sociologists such as Oliveira Vianna, Caio Prado Jr;, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Raimundo Faoro and Gilberto Freyre; The three analyses draw on essays of Antonio Candido and Walnice Nogueira Galvão which, for the peculiar way of interpreting the relationship between reality and fi ctional literature, these studies present consequences that are worthy of discussion;