Caetano Veloso. The story, addressing the themes peculiar to Rosa's oeuvre and told in first person from the point of view of an observer, recounts the absurd event of a man who decides to live inside a boat in the middle of a water stream, giving no explanation for his actions nor achieving, apparently, anything with it. His last collection published in life was Tutameia – Terceiras Estórias (“Tutameia – Third Stories”), “tuttameia” being a neologism that breaks up as “butterfly's skeleton”, roughly meaning “ninharia”, or "something of low value". Two posthumous works followed: Estas Estórias (“These Stories”), another collection of short-novels, and ‘’Ave, Palavra’’ (a pun on the double-meaning of the word “ave”, which signifies both bird and an archaic salutation, being translated literally as “Bird, Word” or “Hail, Word”), a work of miscellany, compromising short-stories, poems, journal entries and travel notations. Selected bibliography Caçador de camurças, Chronos Kai Anagke, O mistério de Highmore Hall e Makiné (1929) Magma (1936) Sagarana (1946) Com o Vaqueiro Mariano (With the cowboy Mariano, 1947) Corpo de Baile (1956) Grande Sertão: Veredas (The Devil to Pay in the Backlands) (1956) Primeiras Estórias (First Stories) (1962) (The story A Terceira Margem do Rio was later made into a movie of the same name) Tutaméia – Terceiras Estórias (1967) Em Memória de João Guimarães Rosa (1968, posthumous) Estas Estórias (1969, posthumous) Ave, Palavra (1970, posthumous) The Third Bank of the River and Other Stories (Translated to English by Barbara Shelby Merello, reprinted by Orbis Tertius Press, 2020) References 1908 births 1967 deaths Ambassadors of Brazil to Germany Brazilian people of Portuguese descent Brazilian military doctors Portuguese-language writers Brazilian diplomats Brazilian Esperantists Brazilian medical writers Postmodern writers 20th-century Brazilian physicians 20th-century Brazilian writers Members of the Brazilian Academy of Letters Culture in Minas Gerais