ABSTRACT
Guimarães Rosa’s fiction immediately strikes the reader for its innovative quality. Its elaborate artistry certainly owes a lot to the linguistic research and the formal refinement dear to modernity. But Rosa’s language doesn’t pay tribute essentially to the experimentalism of the avant-garde. The Rosian word accomplishes a cosmic integration, which reconciles man to nature. Saying is thus equivalent to giving birth and, in this genesis, language absorbs the metamorphic impetus of nature, which is conceived as a living body.
Keywords:
Guimarães Rosa; language; nature; imagination; reciprocity