← Joao Guimaraes RosaSagaranaby Joao Guimaraes RosaCollection of short novels evoking the mythic landscape of interior BrazilFind on Amazon↗About the authorJoao Guimaraes RosaBrazilian 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.More by Joao Guimaraes RosaThe Devil to Pay in the BacklandsEpic Brazilian novel of outlaws and violence in the backlands of Minas Gerais→The Third Bank of the RiverPhilosophical novella exploring meaning through the image of a boat on a river→Corpo de Baile→