The war of the end of the world / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated by Helen R. Lane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-2025.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Guerra del fin del mundo. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

History.

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

Brazil.

Genre:

Fiction.

History.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

568 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 1997.

Summary:

In nineteenth-century Brazil, just after the establishment of the Republic, an apocalyptic movement led by a mysterious prophet in the Brazilian backlands establishes the state of Canudos, a republic that is home to all the damned of the Earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast, who reject every aspect of the modern state. In it there is no money, property, marriage, income tax, decimal system, or census. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form, a state with all the potential for a true, libertarian paradise that the forces of the modern world and the nation-state cannot tolerate, and one the Brazilian government is determined to crush at any cost. In this novel, the author tells his own version of the real story of Canudos, inhabiting characters on both sides of the massive, cataclysmic battle between the society and government troops. The resulting novel is a retelling of a crucial event in Latin American revolutionary history, a story of passion, violence, and the devastation that follows from fanaticism, as well as a tale of idealism, adventure, and man's struggle to be free. -- From back cover.

Notes:

"First published in the United States of America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. 1984"--T.p. verso.

Translation of: La guerra del fin del mundo. Originally published in Spanish.

ISBN:

0140262601

9780140262605

OCLC:

36797161