Rebellion in the backlands = Os sertões / by Euclides da Cunha ; translated by Samuel Putnam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cunha, Euclides da, 1866-1909.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Phoenix books (Chicago, Ill.) ; P22.

Phoenix books ; P22

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Brazil--History--Canudos Campaign, 1893-1897.

Brazil.

History.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xxx, 532 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1944.

Summary:

Euclides da Cunha's classic account of the brutal campaigns against religious mystic Antonio Conselheiro has been called the Bible of Brazilian nationality. "Euclides da Cunha went on the campaigns [against Conselheiro] as a journalist and what he returned with and published in 1902 is still unsurpassed in Latin American literature. Cunha is a talent as grand, spacious, entangled with knowledge, curiosity, and bafflement as the country itself. . . . On every page there is a heart of idea, speculation, dramatic observation that tells of a creative mission undertaken, the identity of the nation, and also the creation of a pure and eloquent prose style."--Elizabeth Hardwick, "Bartleby in Manhattan"

Contents:

The land

Man

The conflict begins

The crossing of mount cambaio

The moreira cesar expedition

The fourth expedition

The savaget column

The assault

New phase of the struggle

Last days.

Notes:

"Bibliography of the works of Euclides da Cunha": pages 485-487.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0226124444

9780226124445

OCLC:

3996773