The Belt

Abstract

Graciliano Ramos was a writer, journalist, politician, and translator from Alagoas who lived between 1892 and 1953. He was the author of novels such as S. Bernardo (1934) and Angústia (1936), and his most renowned work, Vidas Secas (1938). Graciliano Ramos' work is marked by an objective, almost silent style, in which the author expresses the dissatisfaction of characters who are marginalized and hardened by reality. The short story Um Cinturão presents a distressing account of a beating that the protagonist receives from his father, exposing his dissatisfaction with violence and the injustice of brutality.