A poética do olhar: velamentos e desvelamentos das transvisões de Guimarães Rosa

Abstract

Guimarães Rosa's work offers opportunities to explore the potential of the gaze in its most varied nuances. Through short stories, novels and his masterpiece, the novel Grande sertão: veredas, the author from Minas Gerais presents a multiplicity of characters that make up a very rich and complex gallery of human types who seek to understand the world and themselves through a particular optics that is, at the same time, universal. They are children, old and crazy, most of them from the country side of the so-called civilizing process, but with wisdom and insight that border on the sublime. Rosa's characters present a kind of original look, almost naive, but capable of revealing what is hidden behind the apparent reality. It is these transvisions of the gaze, with their veils and unveilings, that this book investigates, based on the encounter with emblematic works by Guimarães Rosa, namely: Sagarana, Corpo de baile, Grande sertão: veredas and Primeiras estórias.