Grande Sertão Veredas: o sertão como desvelamento da condição humana

Abstract

From the hermeneutic phenomenology of Martin Heidegger, the text will attempt to show that Grande Sertão: Veredas, of Guimaraes Rosa, can be read as a mythopoetic experience of the human condition. Heidegger, in his “On Humanism”, 1946, shows that the language is not just a communication tool, but the "house of Being, the habitation of man." For him, the logical-scientific knowledge is incapable of understanding the Being in its most profound manifestation in the world, and the poetic language is the only one able to rescue the man from the "oblivion of Being." In his "On the way to language", 1959, he will put that "As one who speaks, the man is, man ... But there is still thinking what is called like this: the man". We believe that Grande Sertão: Veredas is the great Rosa’s attempt to “think” this issue, and that all the invention and language experience – marked by hybridity, the ambivalence, the dilution of borders – results of a Riobaldo propelled toward to fold and unfold human existence, "unhiding" a "human man" marked by fragmentation, by deep tear, by uncertainties. Anyway, what results is the "human man" crossing "Nonada". Finally, the sertão rosiano, as poetry, presents itself as the unveiling of the condition of man.