Vestibular Seriado UFMG Practice Questions - Vestibular Seriado Da Universidade Federal De Minas Gerais Exam

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In Guimarães Rosa's short story 'A Terceira Margem do Rio' (from 'Primeiras Estórias', 1962), what does the father's silent, perpetual departure into a small canoe on the river symbolize?

An existential, enigmatic quest for a transcendent third dimension between life and death, madness and rationality, detachment and existence. An economic migration to work in the Manaus rubber plantations during World War II. A political escape from government persecution following the 1930 Revolution. A scientific biological expedition to catalog freshwater fish species in the Rio São Francisco.

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An existential, enigmatic quest for a transcendent third dimension between life and death, madness and rationality, detachment and existence.

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