| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
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| Rosa, João Guimarães |
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(r ´zä) (KEY) , 1908–67, Brazilian novelist. In The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956, tr. 1963), Rosa combines naturalism with psychological analysis in his examination of Riobaldo, an outlaw from NE Brazil. Rosa, a leading novelist of 20th-century Brazil, was also a physician and served as a Brazilian diplomat. | 1 | | See stories tr. by B. Shelby (1968); studies by J. Vincent (1978) and E. de Faria Coutinho (1991). | 2 |
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