Sagarana: analysis and summary of the work of José Guimarães Rosa

Sagarana, Considered one of the raw works of Brazilian regionalist prose, it is a book of stories by João Guimarães Rosa, published in 1946. Its first version was written in 1938 and registered in the Humberto de Campos literary contest, given by José Olympio. As nome of Cough e envelope or Viator pseudonym, or book second.

Or title Sagarana It is a neologism, a linguistic phenomenon that is very present in Guimarães's works. É a junção da palavra "saga" with "frog", from Tupi origin, which means "semelhante com". Assim Sagarana It's like a saga.

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Prose Regionalista, questões universais

João Guimarães Rosa is considered or senior representative of regionalist prose. Sagarana It is a light that passes away from Minas Gerais. All of you tell us about situations and typical lendas of the region and its language is close to falar do sertanejo.

É or espaço do sertão that gives unit to free. I tell you about the sertanejo life, the social and psychological aspects of the two inhabitants of the region. Even being a free focused on Minas Gerais, its narrative is, in a certain way, universal as it addresses gerais themes, such as love and death.

A ability to unite the regional or universal year is one of the great characteristics of Guimarães Rosa. These texts may cause some difficulty in reading thanks to many years in terms of regional issues, especially the moral of their histories and the content of their narratives that are universally understood.

So you are inside you are days

A narrative in the style of "contação de causo" is another striking characteristic of Guimarães. In the middle of the main entanglement, various other stories are linked to us, complementing the narrative focus. This type of narrative is close to orality, where a storyteller emenda a "cause" not another.

Or work of the writer in transpor essa oralidade for the written and immense, pois ele não fe or contribution da fala, give pauses and the viewer to live or keep narrative. Guimarães succeeds in an exemplary way to mix different estórias in the main without losing focus or confusing or reading.

Fantastic regionalism

Many times the fiction of Guimarães Rosa is approaching the fantastic, where unreal events become verossimic thanks to years of narrative artifacts. You dois contos mais exemplares desse style no Sagarana são Corpo Dated and São Marcos.

Nestes contos or supernatural joins with banais situations, always by means of the figure of curandeiro, representative of the fantastic in the sertanejo world.

I summarize two contos

O burrinho pedrês

Either it opens or it tells the story of the journey of a beautiful hair sertão after a great period of Chuvas. Or central personage or donkey sete-de-ouros, an animal já velho, that was "settled" on the farm. For lack of cavalos, he accompanies a boiada.

A history of travessia da boiada é cheia of other small histories that run parallel to the main one. A narrative of Guimarães Rosa has that characteristic of fabulation, in which other lendas or small narratives are twisted not by means of the main entanglement.

"It was um burrinho pedrês, miúdo and resigned"

Em O burrinho pedrês, through the boiada and marked by uma rixa between two boiadeiros and or constant half of the foreman that they are seen not half of the road. Therefore, I must have an essential role in the history of the donkey itself.

In spite of the tension due to the rivalry of two cowboys, or I walked together or tremped with a lot of trouble or there were major problems. É na volta, já sem a boiada, that you vaqueiros will find a challenge: to cross a river that is cheio by few chuvas.

As it happens at night and the boiadeiros do not get to see or how abundant it is or river, they trust them not donkey to go through with security. Either a donkey comes across, porém, or that the contavam was not like the animal's obstinação to turn to its room.

O river is in terrible conditions, various cavalos and cavaleiros are lost in the stream. Or donkey ends his journey more out of fear than because of any other cause.

A volta do prodigal husband

This count unfolds more or less as a prodigal filho. Lalino is a kind of thug: he works little and quase always gets away from it on the spot.

I do not have a conversation with colleagues from work who feared the idea of ​​going to Rio de Janeiro. Lalino gathers money and leaves Mulher to go to capital. Lá, spend time between festivals and vagabundagem. With little work, or money going to finish, I decided to return to the arraial. For him he found his wife abandoned as a Spanish, a respected owner of the community.

I burned with more fame as Lalino, who before leaving for Rio pegou dinheiro borrowed as Spanish. He becomes known as someone who sold his wife Maria Rita for a stranger and had not received much hair from his native city.

"E os bate-paus abandonam o foguinho do pátio, e, very happy, because they have been very inactive, fazem chorus:
Pau! Pau! Pau!
Pau de jacaranda ...
Depois do cabra na unha,
I want to see what I have to drink... "

O filho of Major Anacleto sees in Lalino an opportunity to help in the election of his country. As Lalino's malandragens make him uncomfortable or Major Anacleto, more or more positive results of Lalino's adventures will please him more and more.

No final, in the presence of Lalino I did not make so much discomfort or Spanish that, louco de ciúmes, I began to love Maria Rita. She looks for shelter with or major. Ele, que é Cristão, accredits no match and is very satisfied with the services provided by Lalino, resolve chamar os seus capangas to expel you espanhóis da região, fazendo as Maria Rita and Lalino fiquem together novamente.

Sarapalha

This is two more curtos do Sagarana, It tells the story of two cousins ​​who lived in a desolate place in the malaria region. Doentes, cousins ​​spend days sitting na varanda and, between a crise and another, talk a little.

Or what remains of the farm and is touched by a black woman, who takes care of a small garden at home. In an afternoon of conversation, between the tremedeiras of February, a two cousins ​​began to think about death and até desjá-la. Cousin Argemiro is raised by Luisinha, his wife who fugiu does not eat from his doença as a vaqueiro.

"Ao redor, bons pastos, boa people, terra boa para o arroz. E o place has been mapped to us, much earlier than bad check "

A lembrança da woman causes two cousins ​​for two years, Primo Ribeiro also has a secret love for Luisinha. He never revealed his secret love and it came to the end that, no matter what his madness caused by February, he revealed something else.

In February, Primo Argemiro had a logo followed by me as Primo Ribeiro, who resolved to tell his story about him for Luisinha. Depois da confissão, Argemiro sat brought because he blames that the friend of the cousin was pure.

Even trying to explain the situation, Primo Ribeiro is expelled from home. The fazenda sai da, no meio do caminho and attacked by a crise de febre, deita no chão e by la fica.

Duel

This was a kind of labyrinth of landscapes and pursuits with sertão. Turíbio Todo é um seleiro who, due to lack of work, spends a lot of time outside the house fishing. One day, some of his departures were canceled, and he did not return to the country, he surprises his adult woman as an ex-military man, or Cassiano Gomes.

"I breathe founded and his head worked with gosto, I compose woven planes and vingança"

Knowing that you do not have chances as an ex-military, Turíbio Todo sai de fininho and plan to his vingança with a lot of calm. He resolves to make Cassiano in his house bem I give up manhã hair, I will leave chances for or ex-military to regroup. I know that Turíbio Everything strikes in Cassiano for the coasts and, ao reverses him, hits or seu irmão.

A vingança turns sideways, and now Cassiano wants to go morte do irmão. As Turíbio Todo knows that he has no chances against Cassiano, he resolves to run away. His plane is physically worn out or an ex-military man who fears problems, not heart, and also kills him indirectly.

The pursuit continues for a long time, with more or less tense moments. Até que Turíbio Everything goes to São Paulo and Cassiano fell to nothing. In his leito de morte Cassiano meets with Vinte and Um, a simple and pacato do sertão little guy.

You are traumatized and Cassiano helps save the life of Vinte and Um's filho. Depois da morte de Cassiano, Turíbio Everything went to his native city, mainly for saudades da mulher. Na cavalgada found him a cavaleiro with a strange figure.

Turíbio Todo and the cavaleiro started to cavalry together, I added that he revealed himself to be Vinte e Um, Cassiano's friend who made a killing for the friend and killed Turíbio Todo.

Minha people

Minha people The first person told in the first person, and the narrator had not been identified by him, just did not start with the story of Doutor. This title leads us to believe that this student is on his way to Minas Gerais. I did not walk to his uncle's house, I found Santana, a flawed school inspector in xadrez. He tramped a game that was interrupted by an imminent loss of Santana.

Or the narrator spends a season at his uncle's house, who is involved in politics. Please be interested in your cousin Maria Irma. A few years I have been developing a paixão pela prima, which is avoided in various ways invested.

In parallel to the main entanglement, we meet the story of Bento Porfírio, who, on account of a fisherman, stopped meeting a woman who was promised to him. Tempos depois, when she was married, Bento Porfírio wraps himself up with her. Or the husband discovers the relationship and kills Bento Porfírio during a fishing session, a moment when the narrator talks to each other.

Another striking moment is that the narrator was Ramiro, or Armanda's friend, a friend of cousin Maria Irma. Or that aroused or sentiment of the narrator was a visit from Ramiro to the farm, where he lent free for his cousin. Disappointed with his relationship with Maria Irma, or the narrator, he leaves for Três Barras, for another uncle's house. After a few months I received two letters, one of the uncle who tells about the victory of his party in the election and another of Santana, in which he explains how the power would be gained from xadrez who apparently was lost.

"Long live Santana, how are you guys! Long live or xeque-do-pastor! Viva qualquer coisa... "

Inspired by Santana's resolution, or the narrator decides to return home to cousin Maria Irma and try to conquer-the next time. Chegando na fazenda de seu uncle, he meets Armanda and immediately turns off for her, leaving her cousin. A few months after the narrator marries Armanda and cousin Maria Irma marries Raimundo.

São Marcos

Or count São Marcos Also narrated in the first person. O narrator, José, is a cultured homeowner who does not certify that he is feitiçaria, despite knowing more than sixty procedures and some brave prayers to avoid or chance.

Or his contempt of him for feitiçaria also extends to feiticeiros, so much so that he always passes by the house of feiticeiro do arraial of vociferous offenses against or preto.

One day, year after year, José exaggerates the offenses. As a costume, I followed or killed to observe the plants and animations. Ao pé de um lago, José loses visão sem nenhum apparent motive. He struggles to tempt sair do mato sem to be able to see a foot in front of him.

Guided hairs out of hair and all hair, it is lost, it falls and it is bruised. Desperate, he runs to a reza brava and, with help from the, get to leave the mato and go tied to the feiticeiro house. You two are wrapped in a brigade and José, still blind, gives a sova not feiticeiro and only for when he turns to enxergar.

"Olho that must be dated, p'ra not need to see black ugly ..."

Isso happens when or feiticeiro removes the bandages of the olho from a small cloth boneco. I foi that José ceded the offenses that he received. It was for José not to need to see "black ugly."

Dated corpo

This is two more striking contos do Sagarana. A fantastic narrative with marks of regionalism will be the main characteristics of the work of João Guimarães Rosa. It comes in the form of dialogue, interspersing Manuel Fulô's narrative with a conversation with him as a doctor of the arraial.

The main entanglement and the history of the succession of valentines in Laginha, a small inland city of Minas Gerais. Manuel Fulô goes on counting two different people who terrorize Laginha. In beginning to these stories, he also tells me about his life.

Manuel Fulô has a lovely Beija-flor chamada. Ela é o seu proud of him, an expert animal that brings or donates a volta home when he drinks too much. O sonho de Manuel é ter uma sela de coura, Mexican style, to be able to walk with Beija-flor.

He also tells us how he walked with you to learn to negotiate animais. So you dishonest techniques two ciganos or deixaram annoyed that he resolved to deceive you. Knowing that you are going to visit us for the arraial due to a festival, Manuel Fulô prepared two cavalos to be negotiated. I bet a lot of money and a lot of luck, get it to deceive you. His joy is so great that he comes out screaming at a party that has deceived you. Uma jogada bad feita because you give up no more I want to negotiate with it.

Manuel Fulô fica noivo from Das Dores e, to commemorate, chama or Doutor to drink beer na venda. During a bebedeira or valentão Targino, or the top of all of Laginha, enter the bandage and go directly in the direction of Manuel Fulô told him that he wanted to give Das Dores and that not the next day he will check with her before marriage two dois.

Manuel Fulô is desolate and Doutor sketches a great revolt as courage. Sem to know what to do, Manuel takes him to his house. Nobody knows what to do, he is great, but at the chance of dying at my heart, he seems to be better still. At night it passes through confusion and from manhã to tension increases during the eminence of the encounter of Targino with Das Dores. I said that Antonico das Pedras, or local feiticeiro and curandeiro, enters the press at home looking for Manuel Fulô.

From a conference with Antonico das Pedras, Manuel Fulô left the fourth and left to face Targino. Ele sai saying to deixarem or feiticeiro take Beija-flor embora. All acham that Manuel enlouqueceu, the sai na rua e is with Targino.

"Conheceu, people, or that é sangue de Peixoto ..."

I do not conflict, Manuel barely carries a knife. After countless shots fired by Targino, Manuel Fulô pounded on top of him with a kill and bravery. This is how Manuel Fulô's commemorations last for months, I tied his marriage and loved it. It happens to be or courage of the place, but a decorative courage and, when it exaggerates the drink, it hits Beija-flor borrowed and sai firing fake shots at the sleep not lombo do animal.

Bois talk

In this story, as in so many of Guimarães Rosa, various stories are mixed up in the narrative. Enquanto a car of bois face or seu brought raising rapadura and a deceased, you bois talked about the homens and about a boi who thought as a homem.

Or death not car de boi é or pai do menino-guide Tiãozinho. Ele not gosta do carreiro Agenor Soronho, who commanded nele e was mau com o garoto. Over the past two men's thoughts, we notice that your employer is related to your mother or inconvenience.

Enquanto seu pai definehava com a doença, you two começaram to relate in a way that Agenor Soronho tinha becomes a kind of stepfather of Garoto. The menino-guide's thoughts are mixed with two boys talking.

"What do you do or what is joining back ..."

"Thinking like you are home" is a complicated thing, sometimes it is to make the right decision, to try to make a move on some occasion and other times it is very dangerous. Or boi who thought as a homem morreu depois de cair de uma ribanceira, that he went up in search of a brook more perto do pasture.

To travel, follow the road, Agenor Soronho, start to drive, not the carriage of bois, enquanto or menino-guide, he goes walking quase asleep too, like a boy who manages to walk of dated olhos. A posição do carreiro no car de bois e perigosa e elephica is correcting when I fell. Tiãozinho is walking in front of him, I fell asleep, he gave a shout, ordering you to walk faster. With abrupt movement, Agenor Soronho fell into the roll of the car and died.

Now and then Augusto Matraga

It tells the story of Nhô Augusto, a family of farmers, with many possessions and a great propensity for brigades, women and drinks. The excesses of Nhô Augusto vão, few years, thus consuming his possessions and disenfranchising his family. His wife loves another home, one day, she resolves to run away with him. When Nhô Augusto finds himself on the run, he chamaos his capangas to retrieve Mulher.

Porém os seus capangas of him will pass to the side of the rival farmer Major Consilva. Before going to look for his wife, Nhô Augusto went to Major Consilva's house to try to get his capangas back. But, as a salary melhor, you will become faithful to Major Consilva, batem no Nhô Augusto and brand name. Quase dead from so much apanhar, Nhô Augusto manages to gather all his forces and pular of a ravine.

Everyone is certain that Nhô Augusto will remain, and an enxame of urubus not at the end of the ravine and or that the fate left for a melhor. Porém Nhô Augusto não morreu. A house of pretos velhos acha ele todo ferido, or go home and offer care.

The process of recovery of Nhô Augusto is slow and he has been visited many times by father. Long year after visits, it will undergo a spiritual transformation. Nhô Augusto goes on to understand that either all or his relief is shown to show that he hopes not to infer and his goal becomes to go to him.

"Stop o céu eu vou, nem que seja a porrete!"

For this to happen, Nhô Augusto, who now Augusto Matraga, goes through a life of work and prayer. Ao he will recover, the foge as two beautiful velhos, which will become his country and his mãe, for a small farm, the only posse that still remains, in an isolated place in the sertão.

He has worked for years, praying and helping others whenever he can. I tied that one day a group of cangaceiros led by Joãozinho Bem-Bem. Augustus is excited as he is charged with courageous and armed men at the end of the world, while all of them are dying of half the creatures.

Augusto goes walking straight to falar as the leader of the group and offers his hospitality for all of you cangaceiros. Logo Augusto e Joãozinho Bem-Bem começam uma amizade. Joãozinho knows that Augusto já was homem valente only to see his serious ways, even when he was very quiet now. After a quick stay, João Bem-Bem invites Augusto to join his side, more or ex-valentão recuse or treat and continue with his prayer and work routine. For this reason, somebody is silent in Augustus from a visit to the group of cangaceiros and the only time to sit on a small farm.

Pasado mais algum tempo, Augusto resolves to leave the sertão with a certain destination. He rides on a donkey and deixa or animal lifts the hairs on the roads of Minas Gerais. In two places that Augusto is having a lot of confusion: the group of João Bem-Bem that is around.

Augusto is very stupid with the possibility of seeing his friend again and he will find him. Logo he discovers that two cangaceiros from Joãozinho's group were dead and they prepared for vingança. Augusto finds out what a sentence for the family of the rapacious that he killed: kill us and distribute the many hair members of the group. O pai da família implores that not mexam like seus filhos that do not have a relationship with morte do cangaceiro. Augusto Matraga tries to intercede, attributing that punishment was very severe. João Bem-Bem não arreda o pé, and a duel between you two começa, giving no tragic appearance to both.

Conheça also

• Livro Grande Sertão: Paths of Guimarães Rosa
• Now and then Augusto Matraga, from Guimarães Rosa