Joao Guimaraes Rosa

The Third Bank of the River

Philosophical novella exploring meaning through the image of a boat on a river

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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.

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