One of Rosa's great contributions to Brazilian literature was to broaden the horizons of the language to a degree never seen before, not even during the inventive years of the great baroque writers like Padre Antônio Vieira or in the natural-flowing prose of Euclides da Cunha and the experiments of Mário de Andrade in the twentieth century. It is interesting that Rosa, in an introduction to an anthology of Hungarian short stories, comments on the malleability of that language, for that is what he did for Portuguese; he rediscovered its essential malleability, especially as it might be spoken by the sertanejo…. Rosa does not necessarily use the language of the sertão as it exists, rather he creates a language along the lines of that form of speech, arriving at that third form of reality described by Kenneth Burke, the essence of creative language as apart...