Sao Bernardo: A novel

By Graciliano Ramos

Book Overview

A masterwork about backcountry life by one of Brazil's most celebrated novelists. Paulo Hon rio is a sometime field hand who has kicked and clawed and schemed his way to prosperity, becoming master of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800869915
• ISBN13: 9780800869915
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Taplinger Publishing Company, Incorporated
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

My Favorite Author

O.K,there are a lot of people who say that Machado de Assis is one of the "monsters" of South American Literature,no doubt about that!,BUT Graciliano Ramos is my favorite author,there is,also,no doubt that his style is so interesting and São Bernardo is,let say,one of his best(Angustia and Vidas Secas come to mind).. 10\10,Please read this one and don't be foolish by those stupid "capitalist" fanatics that hate Ramos just because his was a comunista,AND SO WHAT!!!? If you read this novel,and by the end,you think that greed is good,so,please,grow up :)PS: Really sorry about my english...My second linguage is German,so...the things get a really complicated :)

One of the best books ever wrought!!

Paulo Honorio is a tough man who does everything to earn more money and to be more powerful. But, when he knows Madalena, a game of interests begins. His world, dominated by the use of force and represented by Sao Bernardo, his farm, is questioned by Madalena's world, built on a base of love and charity. This fight leads to a astonishing and perfect end, in which Paulo Honorio realizes that he is a "pig" which can't be able to forgive and to change its way of life.