Some conjecture about the death in "The Devil to pay in the Wilderness"

Abstract

Grande Sertão: Veredas is the kind of work that carries in itself such a multiplicitythat it ensures the existence of a nearly self reproductive batch of analysis from several point ofviews. Renowned authors have already offered comprehensions from psychoanalytical, literaryand religious point of views that help composing the mosaic that surrounds Guimarães Rosamasterpiece. This paper follows this last line, the one that derives from religious inflections thatembed the story. More specifically, it follows the images and the symbols that relate to death. Inorder to do so, firstly we must trace some considerations, albeit superficial, about death in itself,within popular culture. That is due to the fact that, although death is a common denominator tohumanity, this is not the case with dying, which understood as a way to deal with death, is builtand solidified in the borders of cultures and, therefore, it takes on different forms. From that,we’ll see then that, in Grande Sertão: Veredas, the deaths are such an everyday part of the narrative that they not always choc or give reason to think about the morbid, but are always so well tuned and finally told that they can’t be ignored or not questioned about their meanings.