Joao Guimaraes Rosa
Brazilian author whose The Devil to Pay in the Backlands is the great Brazilian novel of the sertao hinterland, told in a radically invented language mixing regional dialect with neologism and archaism. He transformed Portuguese prose.
Works
- The Devil to Pay in the BacklandsEpic Brazilian novel of outlaws and violence in the backlands of Minas Gerais
- SagaranaCollection of short novels evoking the mythic landscape of interior Brazil
- The Third Bank of the RiverPhilosophical novella exploring meaning through the image of a boat on a river
- Corpo de Baile