Unchanging evil – preliminary notes on Anguish

Abstract

This essay attempts to highlight the main thrusts of the dramatic ethos of the narrator of Graciliano Ramos' novel Anguish [New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946]. To this end, it studies the circular motion of the writing, which shuffles time and space to suggest disarray. In order to understand the reflux of images that make up the plot, its main analytical focus is, at least in part, the first fragments of the novel.