"Festa de Manuelzão" or the catharsis in the sertão
Abstract
In the new "Uma Estória de amor - Festa de Manuelzão", by the Brazilian author João Guimarães Rosa, which we will analyze here, the theme of the festival appears from the title. In addition to announcing to the reader that a celebration will take place in the course of history, the author anticipates and specifies that this feast belongs to a person named Manuelzão. Thus, the reader knows only by the title, two elements of extreme importance for the economy of history: its protagonist and its leitmotiv, the feast. Without wishing to reduce the celebration to a psychoanalytic analysis, this celebration seems to represent for the character in question a kind of analysis during which the latter will realize his present condition through the understanding of past events.
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