Rebellion in the backlands / translated from Os sertões by Euclides da Cunha, with introduction and notes by Samuel Putnam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

da Cunha, Euclides, Author.

Putnam, Samuel, 1892-1950, author of introduction, etc.

Contributor:

Cunha, Euclides da, 1866-1909, translator.

Standardized Title:

Sertões. English.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Brazil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (570 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : The University of Chicago Press, [1944]

Language Note:

English

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:

Front matter

"BRAZIL'S GREATEST BOOK": A TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

MAPS

PRELIMINARY NOTE

PART I. THE BACKLANDS

PART II. THE REBELLION

GLOSSARIES

INDEXES

Notes:

Maps on lining-papers.

"Bibliography of the works of Euclides da Cunha": pages xxi-xxii. "A selected list of works, passages, and articles on Euclides da Cunha": pages xxii-xxiii.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612538728

9781282538726

1282538721

9780226124452

0226124452

OCLC:

609856873