Quem é Guirigó, o "Rapazola retinto" em Grande sertão: veredas?

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Rízia Lima
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/11395
• topic: Letras; Rosa, João Guimarães, 1908-1967. Grande sertão : veredas; Literatura brasileira - História e crítica; 82

It intends to approach the theme of childhood in João Guimarães Rosa’s work. The main child character that is analyzed is Guirigó, featured in Rosa’s critically-acclaimed novel entitled Grande sertão: veredas, first published in 1956. Switching between closer or more distant views, an investigation of other young characters in the author’s work completes this analysis in order to measure how the character Guirigó was conceived. It will make possible to enlist similitudes and differences between the character and how Brazilian childhood aspects are constituted (rather unequally, it must be said). In spite of an extensive critical fortune upon the life and the work of João Guimarães Rosa, the child character is very little explored by literary critics. Therefore, it aims to present an inaugural study about the character called Guirigó. This study will allow us to go deeper on the research of his constitutive characteristics as a result of life in the sertanejo environment marked by misery and violence also taking into consideration not only his physical, psychological or social aspects, but also the fact that he had a black origin. The analysis is based on Walter Benjamin’s concepts of childhood and its social function; on Jaime Ginzburg’s concepts of violence; on Vânia Resende’s concepts about the child’s role. Some other scholars that study João Guimarães Rosa’s work such as Antonio Candido, Walnice Galvão, Willi Bolle and Leonardo Arroyo will be basis for a deep analysis of the novel. The main objective is to contribute with the studies of Grande sertão: veredas specifically when it comes to suggesting a comparative look upon Rosa’s child characters.