O demônio interior em Grande Sertão : veredas

Abstract

The present dissertation had aimed to analyze the concept of devil in the novel: Grande sertão: veredas (1956), by Guimarães Rosa. It was attempted to verify the cultural traces in the process of demonification, accomplishing a historic-cultural and literary study, from the Christian tradition until the contemporaneity, establishing a correlation with the previously mentioned novel. In it, we observed Satan s infernal character, in an obsessing manner, as the mind s representative restricted to the colective imaginative of bachlands. In the author and in Riobaldo, the narrator, both we notice a new perspective concerning the idea of inner devil symbolizing the personification of evil linked to the human condition. In this direction, I unleash the subject from demonological creeds, in the status of free spirit, it seems to become autonomous, as the possessor of its own actions and the detainer of its own fate.