St. Bernard

Name: St. Bernard
Brand: Totvsrj-record-dc
SKU: 9788501116192
Price: 59.90 BRL
Availability: InStock

Autor: Graciliano Ramos

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Sinopse

The only edition authorized by the Graciliano Ramos Institute, with a portion of the royalties going to the NGO Inoccence Brasil. At the end of a turbulent life, a powerful rancher from the backlands of Alagoas tells his story.

In São Bernardo, we are introduced to Paulo Honório, an orphan boy who worked as a guide for a blind man and sold coconut sweets during his childhood to earn some money. Later, he began toiling in the fields—a task he dedicated himself to until he was 18, when he was arrested for committing an honor killing. Upon his release, his main focus became accumulating assets and money. To this end, he took out a loan from a loan shark and began trading cattle, hammocks, rosaries, and various odds and ends in the backlands.

Facing a series of setbacks, Paulo Honório reacts coldly to everything, even resorting to unethical means to achieve his goals. After amassing some savings, he returns to his hometown of Viçosa, determined to buy the São Bernardo farm, where he had worked in his youth.

Now older, embittered by the life he led, the narrator revisits dramas from his past and internal conflicts that remain unexplained until the moment his memoirs are being written. Neither the S. Bernardo farm, which he managed to acquire for a paltry price, nor the teacher Madalena, whom he hired to teach the children on his farm and whom he eventually marries, gave him the peace he so desperately sought. Writing, then, is all he has left in his attempt to regain the peace he longed for.

From the elaborate existential web developed throughout the plot - with the conflicts between the worldviews embodied by the characters -, in S. Bernardo , a very rich text stands out, mainly in the speeches of Paulo Honório, constructed in surprising metaphors, even though disguised by the concreteness of the words.

Considered by literary critics to be one of the most important fictional texts of the Brazilian modernist movement, S. Bernardo is now available in this beautiful edition that integrates the most recent graphic design of Graciliano Ramos' work.