/lit/ - Literature

Grande Sertão: Veredas. It's an odissey of murder, ressurection and love set in the brazilian cangaço. It's narrated trough the eyes of a surviving cangaceiro, a type of outlaw that permeates brazilian folklore who for the deep love he cultivated to one of his mates goes to hell and back to avenge the death of it's father.

There's a lot more to it, and the main theme of the book can be summed to "What if God doesn't exist, but Satan does?" which is explored trough the terrors the protagonist endures amidst bloodshed and treason. It's all written in the dialetic that was used in the cangaço (brazilian badlands), so, it takes some time to go trough the pages. It's essentialy the only thing Brazil produced that can be compared to Ulysses.

Much appreciated...
(Just from the look of it, it seems like a Brazilian "Blood Meridian"; am I right?)

Haroldo Campos said that the italian, spanish and german were well done but the English translation removed all the linguistic elaborations and transformed his work into a spaghetti western and therefore the Anglo reader won't understand why we call him the Brazilian Joyce

I've seen people talking about brazilian literature here on occasion, but it seems to me like it's only brazilians, with no interest from gringos.
So I was wondering any gringos here have read or enjoy brazilian lit?
I feel like most books here are too regional to be understood by foreigners, pic very much related.

you know what's funny about good Brazilian writers?

there's like a brazilian of them