Estrutura e representação dialéticas no Grande sertão: veredas de Guimarães Rosa

Abstract

Study that reads Grande sertão: veredas and identifies that its structure and representation options are determined by a peculiar relationship between content and form. The dialectic presented by the Hegelian tradition and unfolded later is used, as literary criticism, to say that the novel that Guimarães Rosa launched in 1956 articulates its plot, its characters, the technique with which it deals with time and space, the nexus between figurative themes and the corresponding extra-literary reference, according to a dynamic that preserves, overcomes and elevates the merely structural to another level, so that it is simultaneously also a representational factor. The analysis procedure varies depending on the issue addressed in each subtitle, with texts that deal with specific episodes, with detailed notes on the use of language and others focused on broad thematic topics involving relevant subjects such as the devil, the crossing, the sertão, Riobaldo and Diadorim etc. The authors G. W. F. Hegel, Georg Lukács and Theodor Adorno are the main theoretical references of the research, both for the critical appropriation they made of the dialectical method (in the case of Lukács and Adorno), and for offering, through their works, an experience of learning in dealing with aesthetic analysis, used in this appreciation of the Grande sertão.