Description
A brutal, introspective sergeant is assigned to escort a prisoner across Brazil’s backlands, and what begins as a straightforward transfer quickly turns into a moral reckoning. As Sergeant Getúlio drives his captive from Barra dos Coqueiros toward Paulo Afonso, the journey forces him to confront the contradictions of authority—how duty, power, and personal conscience collide when every mile threatens to blur justice into cruelty. Along the way, encounters and shifting perceptions expose the unsettling ways violence can coexist with clarity of thought, making the road itself a stage for ethical pressure and self-examination. With João Ubaldo Ribeiro’s sharp social insight and psychologically charged storytelling, the novel asks what it truly means to enforce order—and what it costs the human soul when philosophy meets brutality.
Available Editions
paperback
Deutsch
Published Jan 1, 1994
146 pages
ISBN: 9780233988696
paperback
Unknown
Published Jan 1, 1977
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Details
First Published
1971
Language
por
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Sergeant Getúlio by João Ubaldo Ribeiro.