“Sir, take note”: verisimilitude in <i>The devil to pay in the backlands’</i> narration
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https://doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2016.24906Keywords:
João Guimarães Rosa, narration, verisimilitude, Dirce Côrtes Riedel.Abstract
This article examines the concept of verisimilitude in The Devil to Pay in the Backlands’ (by João Guimarães Rosa) narrative voice. Dirce Côrtes Riedel, in her book Meias-verdades no romance (Half-truths in the novel), introduced the hypothesis that “mister” interlocutor, instead of the ex-jagunço Riobaldo, would actually be the one who would have written the story, and therefore became a sort of supra narrator. In order to reiterate such a possibility, I reassess the issues of verisimilitude and functionality of some linguistic elements of the narrative. Based on the aforesaid hypothesis, I, thereby, propose one more way of reading Rosa’s novel.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2016.24906
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