PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Librandi-Rocha, Marília
TI  - Multiple Rumors: <em>Recado</em> and <em>Conconversa</em> in João Guimarães Rosa’s Fiction
AID  - 10.3368/lbr.53.2.62
DP  - 2016 Dec 01
TA  - Luso-Brazilian Review
PG  - 62--83
VI  - 53
IP  - 2
4099  - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/53/2/62.short
4100  - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/53/2/62.full
SO  - Luso-Braz Rev2016 Dec 01; 53
AB  - This article aims to contribute to a renewed vocabulary in literary analysis, in particular with relation to studies focused on translation, multilingualism, oral cultures, and sound studies in fictional prose. Through an analysis of João Guimarães Rosa’s novella “O recado do morro” (1956), the study suggests the inclusion of two untranslatable words: recado and conconversa. The former, a Portuguese word that means “message,” “rumor,” and “warning,” simultaneously, refers to an imagined pre-babelic moment when nature “speaks.” The latter refers to a post-babelic moment, when the multiplicity of languages converses through translation in search of a shared meaning among linguistic differences.