The proposal of this thesis is to read The devil to pay in the backlands, by João Guimarães Rosa, through Walter Benjamin s eyes using, as intercessors, two texts by Walter Benjamin: The image of Proust and On some motifs in Baudelaire. In those two essays, Benjamin raises fundamental questions about memory, forgetting, experience (Erfahrung) and lived experience (Erlebnis), intertwining them with issues such as narrative, time and modernity. The aim is to explore how those issues permeate The devil to pay in the backlands and consider if Rosa was close to artificially reproducing experience (Erfahrung) through his poetic writing, like Proust and Baudelaire, based on the concepts developed by Benjamin in the aforementioned essays. Given the electives affinities identified between Rosa and Benjamin, the intention is to consider if Rosa could be one more star in Benjamin s constellation of writers. As will be shown, Rosa and Benjamin are two mystic, mythic writers that put language above all and see literature as a means of exploring philosophical and metaphysical questions.