Description
Told in the blunt, self-justifying voice of Paulo Honório, this rustic Brazilian novel traces his rise from impoverished orphan to ruthless landowner, as he builds an estate through loans, labor, and relentless calculation. But the more power he amasses, the more he hardens—turning away from the people who sustain his world and treating community like an obstacle rather than a responsibility. With dry wit and sharp satire, the book exposes how ambition can curdle into domination, and how “success” may conceal moral collapse. Graciliano Ramos’s spare, unsentimental style—often likened to the intensity of Faulkner—makes Paulo’s triumph feel both inevitable and chilling, inviting readers to question the costs of self-made myth and the violence embedded in ownership.
Available Editions
paperback
New York : Taplinger Publishing Company
Published Jan 1, 1979
168 pages
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Details
First Published
1934
Language
por
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Sao Bernardo by Graciliano Ramos.