Abstract
This research project aims to study the following short stories of the Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa: As margens da alegria, Os cimos, Famigerado, Sorôco, sua mãe, sua filha e Os irmãos Dagobé, all belonging to the book Primeiras Estórias, 1962. The analysis will take place about the figurations of modernity in the space of the Rosa's backlands, in order to understand how the shock…