by João Ubaldo Ribeiro · Einaudi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806596750
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«Sergente Getúlio» is the novel by João Ubaldo Ribeiro, published by Einaudi in the Nuovi Coralli collection in paperback (175 pages, in Italian).
Set in northeastern Brazil in the 1950s, it narrates the journey of Getúlio Santos Bezerra, a sergeant loyal to a colonel from Sergipe, tasked with escorting a political prisoner. When a political shift orders him to abandon the mission, Getúlio disobeys the order and presses on in a journey that leads him to violence and death.
Novel originally published as «Sargento Getúlio» (1971), winner of the Prêmio Jabuti 1972. Italian edition no. 378 of Nuovi Coralli, with translation by Stefano Moretti and a note by Jorge Amado.
For readers of Brazilian fiction and twentieth-century fiction interested in an intense story about duty and violence.
João Ubaldo Ribeiro was a Brazilian writer, journalist, screenwriter and professor. Several of his books and short stories have been turned into movies and TV series in Brazil. Ribeiro was a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, being elected in 1994. At the time of his death many considered him to be Brazil's greatest contemporary novelist.
