Word: banke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER AND OTHER STORIES, by João Guimarães Rosa. The mystical core of a significant Brazilian writer is revealed in this collection of stories, published posthumously...
...Coop's investment policies. Some part of the Coop's capital could be shifted to such co-operative ventures as the Unity Bank and Trust Company in Roxbury...
...THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER AND OTHER STORIES by Joāo Guimarāes Rosa. 238 pages. Knopf...
...time and place - for example, the palpable Dixie gothic of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Guimarāes Rosa's style is centrifugal. Shooting out to ignite the familiar details of the author's vigorous humanism, it transcends particulars and turns events into allegory. In The Third Bank of the River and Other Stories,* many of the particulars dissolve, leaving the author's metaphysical core standing alone. It is as Guimarāes Rosa intended. The book is his Tempest, the parting reverie, the mystical indulgence after the hurlyburly, the lightening of the load for a final...
...attained the apex of an axiom." Similarly, in the title story, a "reliable, law-abiding, practical man" suddenly sloughs all his responsibilities to live adrift on a river in an open boat. There, fading from the reader's view, he seeks the spiritual dimension: the third bank of the river...