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The Devil to Pay in the Backlands is generously and lushly multilayered: a soldier of fortune’s tale, historical saga, insurgent chronicles and even a delicate romantic mystery – and always at the highest narrative level.What is the nature of Devil? Is he the antagonist of God? Or is he just the other side of God? When you’re at war are you on the side of God or Devil? When you’re in love is your love inspired by God or Devil?What is not of God is of the devil’s domain. God exists even when they The Devil to Pay in the Backlands is generously and lushly multilayered: a soldier of fortune’s tale, historical saga, insurgent chronicles and even a delicate romantic mystery – and always at the highest narrative level.What is the nature of Devil?
Gran Serton: Veredas / The Devil to Pay in the Backlands: 5530 (El Libro De Bolsillo / The Pocket Book) (Spanish Edition) (Spanish) Paperback – June 30, 2000. Descarga Libro Gran Serton: Veredas Online Gratis pdf Gran Sertn: Veredas se public en Brasil en 1956, transformndose en un clsico instantneo y al mismo tiempo indefinible. En palabras de su autor es tanto una novela como un largo poema. Descarga Libro Gran Serton: Veredas Online Gratis pdf Gran Sertn: Veredas se public en Brasil en 1956, transformndose en un clsico instantneo y al mismo tiempo indefinible. En palabras de su autor es tanto una novela como un largo poema.
Is he the antagonist of God? Or is he just the other side of God?
When you’re at war are you on the side of God or Devil? When you’re in love is your love inspired by God or Devil?What is not of God is of the devil’s domain.
God exists even when they say He doesn’t. But the devil does not need to exist to be – when people know that he does not exist, then is when he takes over. Hell is a limitless thing which cannot even be seen.There are plenty of dark moments and often The Devil to Pay in the Backlands subtly echoes by.As long as there is one fearful soul in the world, or a frightened child, everyone is in danger.Life is “neither mean nor kind, it takes away or gives, it pleases or embitters you, according as you treat it”.Life is what you make it. I wouldn't have discovered this book without my brother, who mentioned it to me in late 2012.Wow! After reading it, now I understand why in a 2002 poll of 100 noted writers (see this book's entry in Wikipedia) the book was named among the top 100 books of all time!!!This is all the more amazing because in the English speaking world the book is all but unknown and very hard to get in print.
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However, check online and you may be able to download a pdf copy.The book is set in the wild backlands of B I wouldn't have discovered this book without my brother, who mentioned it to me in late 2012.Wow! After reading it, now I understand why in a 2002 poll of 100 noted writers (see this book's entry in Wikipedia) the book was named among the top 100 books of all time!!!This is all the more amazing because in the English speaking world the book is all but unknown and very hard to get in print. However, check online and you may be able to download a pdf copy.The book is set in the wild backlands of Brazil around the end of the 19th century where jaguncos (armed ruffians) war against each other in Brazil's wild sertao (hinterland of Brazil's northeast, especially northern Minas Gerais state).The novel is told in the first person by Riobaldo, now an old man, to an anonymous silent listener from the city. While the book appears chaotic and without plot to begin with, telling stories of jaguncos hunting each other's war parties in the backlands, the plot eventually takes definite shape and there are important climaxes throughout the book.
What makes it such a classic is the continual philosophy on love, good and evil, especially the thread throughout questioning the existence or not of the devil, and if so whether a pact can be made with him.Riobaldo has wild, memorable mentors such as Ze Bebelo and vicious enemies like Hermogenes. He is in love with various women, particularly Otacilia who he met once at a Fazenda and promised to marry her, and his mind returns to her again and again while traveling and fighting. The Devil to Pay is the first Brazilian novel that I've ever read and it is one of the most explicit and beautiful explorations of gender and sexuality in literature: particularly of masculinity and male love. (It's a shame that it's out of print.)In short, the narrator is Riobaldo who, like Scheherazade from One Thousand and One Nights, seems to be storytelling as away to save his life. The narrative is winding, out of order, repetitive and somewhat unreliable but it functions as a way to learn The Devil to Pay is the first Brazilian novel that I've ever read and it is one of the most explicit and beautiful explorations of gender and sexuality in literature: particularly of masculinity and male love.
(It's a shame that it's out of print.)In short, the narrator is Riobaldo who, like Scheherazade from One Thousand and One Nights, seems to be storytelling as away to save his life. The narrative is winding, out of order, repetitive and somewhat unreliable but it functions as a way to learn about Riobaldo's two true passions: brutal war in the backlands and violent love for his fellow soldier Diadorim.And who is the calm and speechless listener to whom Riobaldo narrates his tale? It must be the devil to whom Riobaldo fears that he accidentally sold his soul in order to become leader of a large group of jacuncos when, one night when he can't stand his burning passion for Diadorim's body, he walks out to the crossroad and beseeches the devil to erase his fears so that he can be the hero to lead his men to avenge the death of Diadorim's father, Joca Ramiro.Riobaldo loves to be in love, but the first time he falls in love it is with a nameless boy - later, we learn that this boy was Diadorim - whom he spies across the way at market.
The boy is beautiful with glowing green eyes and the softness/hardness that always puzzles Riobaldo later. The boy invites Riobaldo out on a boat with him and Riobaldo is very scared because he can't swim. He is intoxicated by the boy's blunt courage on the boat as it rocks violently.
He asks, 'Aren't you ever scared?,' to which the boy says that he never is, even though he, too, can't swim. They arrive on a bank where they hide in the grass to enjoy each other's company. The boy teaches Riobaldo about birds, particularly the long-, red-legged birds that come to symbolize the men's deep love for each other as they grow older.Later, Riobaldo's mother dies and he is sent to live with his 'godfather' who is really his dead-beat dad. When he finds out he abandons his rich father and takes refuge in the dangerous sertao (backlands) where life is hard. He falls in with a band of jacuncos headed by the intellectual Ze Bebelo but he leaves them due to his distaste for their violence. He ends up in the cottage of a group of supporters of Ze Bebelo's enemy where he sees Diadorim again.
His burning passion for Diadorim prompts him to join these jacuncos and travel with them until he grows old, so that he can be close to his friend.In some of the most beautiful phrases I have ever read about love, Riobaldo tells his listener (the devil?) about the difficult time that he had coming to terms with his love for Diadorim.Diadorim and Riobaldo are two of the bravest and most violent fighters among the jacuncos. They live and breathe war. Riobaldo is a sharp-shooter. He never misses and is the team's prize player. Diadorim is the bravest hand-to-hand fighter with courage like a lion.
These two men are probably the most 'manly' characters next to Hemingway's figures. Diadorim observes of Riobaldo: 'You're a man's man' (122). There is no doubt in the text, ever, about their manhood. Literature never knew more 'masculine' characters.At the same time, their romantic love for each other is unparalleled. They yearn, independently, for what they believe that they can never have.
No matter how bad the yearning, neither Diadorim nor Riobaldo give in to their feelings with physical action. Only once, before their last battle in which Diadorim dies, does Riobaldo shyly call his lover 'My loved-one,' to which Diadorim feigns anger. They play with each other like this, repelling that which they desire most.Literature has never known more beautiful a love than that which Riobaldo and Diadorim share. What is most lovely about it is their futile resistance to it: 'I loved Diadorim in a way that I frowned upon; I no longer thought about loving him, I just knew that I would love him always' (77).Of all the affective experiences that describe the two love-birds, fear and shame are paramount for Riobaldo.
In this way, his love - and Diadorim himself - are demonized to a certain extent, suggesting that the real devil to whom Riobaldo has sold his soul is Diadorim: the perpetual tempter. Riobaldo constantly asks, 'could love be sent by the Devil?' (118).Nevertheless, their love blossoms with time rather than diminishes.
What persists, also, is Riobaldo's debate about the justness of his love:'It was a kind of spell. Let him be near me and I lacked for nothing. Let him frown or look sad, and I would lose my peace of mind. Let him be far from me, and I thought only of him. And did I myself, then, no understand what this was?
I know that I did. I didn't really want to understand it. That rough tenderness which he concealed most of the time. And in me a desire to get as close to him as I could, a craving almost to inhale the odor of his body, of his arms, which at times I madly imagined. This temptation made me feel weak, and I upbraided myself severely' (124).What Riobaldo feels for Diadorim is like nothing else due, in part, to Diadorim's nature as truly 'different from everyone else' (91). Indeed, when his corpse is laid on the table Riobaldo sees that he is actually a woman.Riobaldo says that 'every girl is gentle, white, and dainty' (159), yet the bravest and most violent of all men is actually a woman, Maria Diadora.Gender-shifting is a familiar theme in much literature, from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night to Tahar Ben Jelloun's The Sand Child.
In The Devil to Pay, however, Diadorim's gender is not really of much concern. Riobaldo, for example, reveals Diadorim's gender at the end. He continues to call her 'him' and doesn't make the kind of observations that one might expect - such as surprise or a rethinking of gender roles.Rather, the truth of Diadorim's body reveals only one truth to Riobaldo: that sometimes 'selling' the soul is actually 'buying' it back. Grande Sertao: Veredas, by Joao Guimaraes RosaTranslated as The Devil to Pay in the BacklandsThis is a great book.
I loved it.It seems that I am growing very fond of the Latin American LiteratureI loved Marques and Llosa and now I discovered with great joy Guimaraes Rosa.This is a long, fascinating book. The heroes are for the most part the jacuncos, roaming through the “Grande Sertao” of the titleThe Devil? It seems He does not exist, in spite of the many names with which he is often mentione Grande Sertao: Veredas, by Joao Guimaraes RosaTranslated as The Devil to Pay in the BacklandsThis is a great book. I loved it.It seems that I am growing very fond of the Latin American LiteratureI loved Marques and Llosa and now I discovered with great joy Guimaraes Rosa.This is a long, fascinating book.
The heroes are for the most part the jacuncos, roaming through the “Grande Sertao” of the titleThe Devil? It seems He does not exist, in spite of the many names with which he is often mentioned through the book.
There are various passages which horrify: the senseless killing of horses, the shooting of a young man, confused with a monkey and eatenThere are plenty of macaws and since I own two, I found this presence to add to my reading pleasure.The names have an exotique appeal to me: Acaua, Queque, Quim Queiroz, Sesfredo, Quipes, Jiribibe, Beiju, Mao di Lixa, Bexiguento, and Ze BebeloThere is a main love story (there are a few more, less important) which seems out of the ordinary, the love of the lead man foranother man, Diadorim. Only in the end we find out that Diadorim was in fact a woman.Descriptions of the Sertao, with its many birds, plants, jaguars and capibaras, tapirs, macaws and vultures, buriti palms, alternate with terrible storiessome children were born with no legs or arms“How can God not be? I discovered this book because I really like Latin American authors like Llosa, Marquez, Saragamo, Amado, Fuentes and Azuela etc and heard about it as being a novel included in the Nobel world literature top 100 (as selected by the worlds best 54 authors).The story is about two men (Riobaldo and Diadorim) and their close relation as they interact with the various factions and leaders of bandit groups. There is much travel and chasing around the Sertao' area of Brazil.
There is lots of rivalry, I discovered this book because I really like Latin American authors like Llosa, Marquez, Saragamo, Amado, Fuentes and Azuela etc and heard about it as being a novel included in the Nobel world literature top 100 (as selected by the worlds best 54 authors).The story is about two men (Riobaldo and Diadorim) and their close relation as they interact with the various factions and leaders of bandit groups. There is much travel and chasing around the Sertao' area of Brazil. There is lots of rivalry, mixed motives and fighting. The complex story starts, somewhat confusingly, in the middle (but not nearly as bad as 'The Green House' or 'Conversations in a Cathedral') but eventually overtakes to the present with an excellent final battle and indeed final explanation of the guys' relationship. The story is not in a magical realism style but is nonetheless stylish and riveting.I found the narrative to be very reminiscent of 'War of the End of the World' by Llosa and hence to be an excellent, `boys own' tale.
If you've read and enjoyed that story then you will love The Devil. There is nothing not to like about the style or pace for its 490 pages.To answer the basic question of `is it worth it? Bearing in mind it's out of print and several hundred pounds (sterling) in English - then I'd say yes but read some of the usual authors mentioned above first whilst saving up the money and when you've enough cash then get The Devil; you won't be disappointed. Ultimately I can understand why it was selected (probably by the Nobel authors reading it in the original Portugese) to be in the top 100. I heard about this book quite a while ago and have been searching for it ever since, even given the warnings that the English version does not fully capture the brilliance of the original.
Recently, I found a PDF copy I could download and jumped. I was not disappointed. I was taken in by Riobaldo's story of a bandit's life in the backlands of Brazil. How he struggled with his belief/non-belief in the Devil and of fate. How he couldn't deny his forbidden love for Diadorim. How he realized that co I heard about this book quite a while ago and have been searching for it ever since, even given the warnings that the English version does not fully capture the brilliance of the original. Recently, I found a PDF copy I could download and jumped.
I was not disappointed. I was taken in by Riobaldo's story of a bandit's life in the backlands of Brazil. How he struggled with his belief/non-belief in the Devil and of fate. How he couldn't deny his forbidden love for Diadorim. How he realized that courage in life, in it's many forms, is something worth attaining.I was on the edge of my seat while the last battle waged.
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I could see the bullets flying, the bodies falling. While I had guessed at part of the ending, it still managed to surprise me. And that surprise ending has kept me thinking about the novel. Riobaldo's story is staying with me.
Nothing that I write here will live up to this book. However I found a superb review about it, which I recommend you to read:Sometimes I had the impression it is a giant poem, other times I had the impression it is alive: you go back some pages, read them again and it seems different than before. I read a (Brazilian) Portuguese edition and bookmarked parts I found especially beautiful.
I recommend you to do it. After a while, open the book again and rerea Nothing that I write here will live up to this book. However I found a superb review about it, which I recommend you to read:Sometimes I had the impression it is a giant poem, other times I had the impression it is alive: you go back some pages, read them again and it seems different than before. I read a (Brazilian) Portuguese edition and bookmarked parts I found especially beautiful. I recommend you to do it. After a while, open the book again and reread these parts.
You will understand what I mean. This book is an amazing accomplishment, it is a masterpiece in the true sense of the word.