Book, São Bernardo[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. "At the end of a troubled life, a powerful farmer from the backlands of Alagoas tells his story. In S.Bernardo we are introduced to Paulo Honório, an orphan boy who worked as a guide for a blind man and sold coconuts during his childhood to earn some money . Later, he began to work on the farm - a task to which he dedicated himself until he was 18, when he ended up in prison after committing an honor crime. Upon his release, the main focus of his life became collecting goods and money. For To do so, he takes a loan from a loan shark and begins to negotiate cattle, hammocks, rosaries and various small items throughout the backlands. Facing a series of setbacks, Paulo Honório reacts to everything with coldness, and even employs unethical means to achieve his goals. After succeeding Gathering some savings, he returns to his homeland, Viçosa, decided 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 inexplicable until the moment your memoirs are being written. Neither the S. Bernardo farm, which he managed to acquire for a ridiculous price, nor the teacher Madalena, whom he hired to teach the children of his rural enterprise to read and write and whom he ended up marrying, gave him the peace he was looking for. Writing, then, is what he has left, in an attempt to regain the desired peace. From the elaborate existential web developed throughout the plot - with the conflicts between the worldviews incorporated by the characters -, in S.Bernardo, a very rich text stands out, mainly in the speeches of Paulo Honório, built on surprising metaphors, even though disguised by the concreteness of the words. Considered by literary critics to be one of the most important fiction texts of the Brazilian modernist movement, S.Bernardo is now available in this beautiful edition that integrates the most recent graphic project of Graciliano Ramos' work. "