In the novel Grande sertão: veredas, the encounter with the catrumanos gives Riobaldo thoughts that blend compassion and fear. His considerations and the way he will treat them, as Urutu-Branco, outlines, to those “men of weird appearance”, a complex and ambivalent picture of the relations of strength and power, connecting, in an apparent paradox, that “distant and diverse race” with the character of Zé Bebelo. The thread joining the two extremes can be identified in a “state of exception” that, in an mirrored image, places the political logic and the victims and agents of power in the same situation of anomy.
Pós-tudo: banimento e abandono no Grande Sertão / FINAZZI AGRO', Ettore. - In: REVISTA DO INSTITUTO DE ESTUDOS BRASILEIROS. - ISSN 0020-3874. - 44:(2007), pp. 159-172.
Pós-tudo: banimento e abandono no Grande Sertão
FINAZZI AGRO', Ettore
2007
Abstract
In the novel Grande sertão: veredas, the encounter with the catrumanos gives Riobaldo thoughts that blend compassion and fear. His considerations and the way he will treat them, as Urutu-Branco, outlines, to those “men of weird appearance”, a complex and ambivalent picture of the relations of strength and power, connecting, in an apparent paradox, that “distant and diverse race” with the character of Zé Bebelo. The thread joining the two extremes can be identified in a “state of exception” that, in an mirrored image, places the political logic and the victims and agents of power in the same situation of anomy.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.