Aprieto en las alturas sobre Páramo, de Guimaraes Rosa
This article proposes an interpretation of the tale entitled �Páramo�3 by the Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa. The tale was published post mortem, with the first edition released in 1969. Years after his experience in Germany, the author leads the reader to the heart of a traumatic memory: an e...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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Instituto de Ciências Humanas e Filosofia. Universidade Federal Fluminense
2013
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| Online Access: | https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=4329437 |
| Source: | Passagens, ISSN 1984-2503, Vol. 5, Nº. 2, 2013, pags. 168-204 |
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This article proposes an interpretation of the tale entitled �Páramo�3 by the Brazilian writer
João Guimarães Rosa. The tale was published post mortem, with the first edition released
in 1969. Years after his experience in Germany, the author leads the reader to the heart of
a traumatic memory: an encounter with death. Yes, an �encounter with death. Not final
death � equestrian, Grim Reaper, skinny and so unsettling, but the other one, that one�.
Death in the tale appears as psychological suffering (pathos) intensely experienced
through soroche � altitude sickness � due to the thin air at high altitudes, but also through
the deep depression experienced upon that period of thriving authoritarianism (ethos) in
wartime Germany, expressed in countless genocidal killings. The approach proposes an
intertwining of history, political culture and the clinical method. |
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