A presença do amor em Vidas secas

Résumé

The question which needs to be asked if you want to understand love in Vidas secasis: who knows how things are? Who knows how one feels love? That is the essential feature of the “diferente” love that is seen in the work of Graciliano Ramos: because it is made of a wide range of concerns, frustrations and desires reagrding the characters, it rejects the idea of an essential purity