For ten points, identify this Brazilian author of the short story collection The Third Bank of the River as well as the sprawling novel The Devil to Pay in the Backlands.
In one short story by this writer, the narrator's father paddles out in a canoe to the middle of the river and stays there for the rest of his life, until the narrator offers to come take his father's place. This author's last collection of stories to be published in his lifetime comprises forty pieces of writing called "anecdotes of abstraction," and four longer essays called "prefaces;" that work is titled Tutameia. This author first made his name with the publication of a volume of stories titled Sagarana, while his collection of seven pieces too long to be short stories and too long to be novels is titled Corps de Ballet. This writer's most famous novel concerns the story of Riobaldo, who loves the hermaphroditic Diadorim and tells of his career as a jagunco, or bandit of the sertao, the setting for most of this writer's shot fiction. For ten points, identify this Brazilian author of the short story collection The Third Bank of the River as well as the sprawling novel The Devil to Pay in the Backlands.
In one short story by this writer, the narrator's father paddles out in a canoe to the middle of the river and stays there for the rest of his life, until the narrator offers to come take his father's place.
Joao Guimaraes Rosa