A existência ilusória do diabo em Grande sertão veredas: rastros budistas na obra de João Guimarães Rosa

摘要

The present study aims to investigate the traces of Buddhism in the work of João Guimarães Rosa, as in some poems of Magma, in the short story "Minha gente", from Sagarana, in the preface "Aletria e Hermenêutica", from Tutaméia, and in the narrative "Cipango" of Ave, Palavra, and, based on them, demonstrate the presence of one aspect of Buddhist philosophy — the idea of the illusory existence of phenomena — in Grande sertão: veredas, condensed in a reasoning of Riobaldo on the existence of the devil. Read through the concept of “evidence paradigm” of Carlo Ginzburg, in which marginal data of a work may reveal a larger information, the references to Buddha and Buddhism, which are highlighted in this research, would spell out that the Buddhist presence is not merely peripheral on the work of the author, but is even significant for the construction of a reading proposal for Grande sertão: veredas.