A canção de Siruiz/Ziuris

Abstract

This study shows how Siruizs song presents the theme of the heros formation in Grande sertão: veredas, Guimarães Rosas masterpiece, and how, in order to be understood, it needs to be placed in the various moments it is remembered. When Riobaldo reaches the midpoint ofhis life, at the village of Urubu — this can be seen as a metaphoricalparody of Dante's "Dark Forest" in the Divine Comedy. At this moment he begins to be aware ofhimself as well of the meaning of the song that troubled him so much