TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ramos,Graciliano
AU  - Dimmick,Ralph Edward
AU  - Umlauf,Charles
TI  - Barren Lives
T2  - Texas Pan American Series
SN  - 9780292748330
AV  - PZ3.R1477 ǂb R366 1999eb 
U1  - 891.7344 
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Brazil, Northeast -- Fiction
KW  - Droughts -- Brazil -- Fiction
KW  - Fabiano (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
KW  - Peasants -- Brazil -- Fiction
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/731721
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292748330
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292748330/original
ER  -