Why a 70-Year-Old Brazilian Novel Still Challenges Readers Worldwide
Seventy years after its release, Grande Sertão: Veredas continues to reshape literature through language, memory and place
Some books grow old. Others simply collect anniversaries. Seventy years after its publication, Grande Sertão: Veredas by Brazilian author João Guimarães Rosa still belongs to the second category. Widely regarded as one of the greatest novels written in Portuguese, its most remarkable achievement may be that it remains mysterious, captivating and impossible to tame even for twenty first century readers.
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