São Bernardo
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Book Overview
A masterwork about backcountry life by one of Brazil's most celebrated novelists. Paulo Hon rio is a sometime field hand who has kicked and clawed and schemed his way to prosperity, becoming master of the decrepit estate S o Bernardo, where once upon a time he toiled. He is ruthless in his exploitation of his fellow man, but when he makes a match with a fine young woman, he is surprised to discover that this latest acquisition, as he sees it, may be somewhat harder to handle. It is in Paulo Hon rio's own rough-hewn voice that the great Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos, often compared to William Faulkner, tells this gritty and dryly funny story of triumph and comeuppance, a tour de force of the writer's art that is beautifully captured in Padma Viswanathan's new translation.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1681373858
ISBN13:9781681373850
Release Date:May 2020
Publisher:New York Review of Books
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.0" x 7.9"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
My Favorite Author
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
O.K,there are a lot of people who say that Machado de Assis is one of the "monsters" of South American Literature,no doubt about that!,BUT Graciliano Ramos is my favorite author,there is,also,no doubt that his style is so interesting and São Bernardo is,let say,one of his best(Angustia and Vidas Secas come to mind).. 10\10,Please read this one and don't be foolish by those stupid "capitalist" fanatics that hate Ramos just because his was a comunista,AND SO WHAT!!!? If you read this novel,and by the end,you think that greed is good,so,please,grow up :)PS: Really sorry about my english...My second linguage is German,so...the things get a really complicated :)
One of the best books ever wrought!!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
Paulo Honorio is a tough man who does everything to earn more money and to be more powerful. But, when he knows Madalena, a game of interests begins. His world, dominated by the use of force and represented by Sao Bernardo, his farm, is questioned by Madalena's world, built on a base of love and charity. This fight leads to a astonishing and perfect end, in which Paulo Honorio realizes that he is a "pig" which can't be able to forgive and to change its way of life.
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