Entre o concreto e o literário: uma narrativa paisagística do sertão mineiro de Guimarães Rosa

Abstract

In Brazil, “sertão” is a polysemic term whose meanings have changed over time, including its literary representations. In Guimarães Rosa's literature, the sertão is presented to the reader not as a setting or backdrop to the narrative, but as a landscape, experienced and felt by the characters. In narrating the backlands of Minas Gerais, the author acted as a spokesperson for this region, its people and its culture to the rest of the country, influencing both our experience of this territory and the development of this landscape. Thus, this thesis aims to develop a narrative of the landscape of the backlands of Minas Gerais, relating its representation in Rosa's literature to the experience of this landscape in O Caminho do Sertão. To this end, in addition to studying Rosa's texts and the territorial scope of this thesis, field trips were undertaken to experience these landscapes in situ from the perspective of the pilgrim and the reader-researcher. Constructed as a narrative, the thesis aims to guide the reader along the same path traversed by the researcher in the complex fabric of the backlands of Minas Gerais, offering a key to reading this landscape.