Pacto diabólico [e outros pactos] em Grande Sertão: Veredas

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the known diabolical pact, as well as the pacts between the characters, in the novel Bedeviled in the Badlands, by João Guimarães Rosa. This research is undertaken with contributions and discussions proposed by the studies of Agamben, Seligman-Silva, Suzi Sperber, Utéza and Albergaria. According to the present book, we can see an openness to the multiple, comprising elements that make the notions of pacts based on the visions of religiosities, occultism and the links between the characters whose existences are marked by the uncertainties of living in the countryside, in which contracts are made and revealed in its narrative. The discussion is made by means of the conjecture that is less relevant to answer if the instant of the pact in this literary work had really occurred, being more plausible to be interpreted as a reflection around the human condition, which is the inherent wills of the being its entanglement of interpersonal relationships. The hypothesis, then, is that as the novel is analyzed, it is emphasized that the covenant of life by Diadorim, the pact of confession with the narratary, and the covenants of respect and loyalty with ―jagunços‖ master in Rosa's work are reverberations of the diabolic pact, which has such peculiar tones in its literary inventiveness.