Barren Lives /
Ramos, Graciliano
Barren Lives / Graciliano Ramos. - 1 online resource (165 p.) - Texas Pan American Series .
Frontmatter -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTENTS -- A New Home -- Fabiano -- Jail -- Vitória -- The Younger Boy -- The Older Boy -- Winter -- Feast Day -- The Dog -- Accounts -- The Policeman in Khaki -- The Birds -- Flight
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A peasant family, driven by the drought, walks to exhaustion through an arid land. As they shelter at a deserted ranch, the drought is broken and they linger, tending cattle for the absentee ranch owner, until the onset of another drought forces them to move on, homeless wanderers again. Yet, like the desert plants that defeat all rigors of wind and weather, the family maintains its will to survive in the harsh and solitary land. Intimately acquainted with the region of which he writes and keenly appreciative of the character of its inhabitants, into whose minds he has penetrated as few before him, Graciliano Ramos depicts them in a style whose austerity well becomes the spareness of the subject, creating a gallery of figures that rank as classic in contemporary Brazilian literature.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780292748330
10.7560/731721 doi
Brazil, Northeast -- Fiction.
Droughts -- Brazil -- Fiction.
Fabiano (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Peasants -- Brazil -- Fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
PZ3.R1477 ǂb R366 1999eb
891.7344
Barren Lives / Graciliano Ramos. - 1 online resource (165 p.) - Texas Pan American Series .
Frontmatter -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTENTS -- A New Home -- Fabiano -- Jail -- Vitória -- The Younger Boy -- The Older Boy -- Winter -- Feast Day -- The Dog -- Accounts -- The Policeman in Khaki -- The Birds -- Flight
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
A peasant family, driven by the drought, walks to exhaustion through an arid land. As they shelter at a deserted ranch, the drought is broken and they linger, tending cattle for the absentee ranch owner, until the onset of another drought forces them to move on, homeless wanderers again. Yet, like the desert plants that defeat all rigors of wind and weather, the family maintains its will to survive in the harsh and solitary land. Intimately acquainted with the region of which he writes and keenly appreciative of the character of its inhabitants, into whose minds he has penetrated as few before him, Graciliano Ramos depicts them in a style whose austerity well becomes the spareness of the subject, creating a gallery of figures that rank as classic in contemporary Brazilian literature.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780292748330
10.7560/731721 doi
Brazil, Northeast -- Fiction.
Droughts -- Brazil -- Fiction.
Fabiano (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Peasants -- Brazil -- Fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
PZ3.R1477 ǂb R366 1999eb
891.7344