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Barren Lives / Graciliano Ramos.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Texas Pan American SeriesPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©1971Description: 1 online resource (165 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780292748330
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 891.7344
LOC classification:
  • PZ3.R1477 ǂb R366 1999eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

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