An important new translation of a fundamental work of Brazilian literature Written by a former army lieutenant, civil engineer, and journalist, Backlands is Euclides da Cunha's vivid and poignant portrayal of Brazil's infamous War of Canudos. The deadliest civil war in Brazilian history, the conflict during the 1890s was between the government and the village of Canudos in the northeastern state of Bahia, which had been settled by 30,000 followers of the religious zealot Antonio Conselheiro. Far from just an objective retelling, da Cunha's story shows both the significance of this event and the complexities of Brazilian society. Published here in a new translation by Elizabeth Lowe, and featuring an introduction by one of the foremost scholars of Latin America, this is sure to remain one of the best chronicles of war ever penned.

Backlands: The Canudos Campaign (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

DA CUNHA, EUCLIDES

United States

Penguin Publishing Group

'The Amazon' features eight essays by Euclides da Cunha, about his trip through the Amazonin in 1905, written to describe the Brazilian hinterlands to the urban citizens.

The Amazon: Land without History (Library of Latin America)

Sousa, Ronald W.

Oxford University Press

In the eight pieces that make up The Amazon: Land Without History, which was first published in Portuguese in 1909, Euclides da Cunha offers a rare look into twentieth-century Amazonia and the consolidation of South-American nation states. Translated into Victorian English, which mirrors the rich and grandiose style of da Cunha's writing, this book offers a view of the continuously changing ecology of the Amazon, a testimony to the Brazilian colonial enterprise, and its imperialist tendencies with regard to neighboring nation-states.

World Literature

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

Rebellion in the Backlands (Os Sertoes )

History

Americas

University Of Chicago Press (Phoenix Books)

Rebellion in the Backlands (Picador Travel Classics)

Picador

L'invention de l'Amazonie

Arts & Photography

CHANDEIGNE

Los Sertones

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

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