Euclides da Cunha's Memorial, Saint Joseph of the Rio Pardo, São Paulo (State), Brazil.
"I miss my office of zinc and slats on the bank of the Rio Pardo! I believe that if I persist in this barren agitation, I will not produce anything more lasting."
Euclides da Cunha
(Excerpt from the letter of Euclides to Francisco Escobar in 1908).
Euclides da Cunha
20 jan 1866
15 agu 1909
Euclides da Cunha Filho
18 jul 1894
4 jul 1915
Os Sertões, ("the backlands"; 1902), translated as Rebellion in the Backlands, is a book written by the Brazilian author Euclides da Cunha. Mixing science and literature, the author narrates the story of a war that happened in the end of the 19th century, in Canudos, a settlement of Bahia's Sertão ("backland"), an extremely arid region where, even now, struggles against poverty, drought and political corruption continue. During the war (1893–1897) against the republican army, the sertanejos (inhabitants of the backlands) were commanded by a messianic leader called Antonio Conselheiro.
Euclides da Cunha's Memorial, Saint Joseph of the Rio Pardo, São Paulo (State), Brazil.
"I miss my office of zinc and slats on the bank of the Rio Pardo! I believe that if I persist in this barren agitation, I will not produce anything more lasting."
Euclides da Cunha
(Excerpt from the letter of Euclides to Francisco Escobar in 1908).
Euclides da Cunha
20 jan 1866
15 agu 1909
Euclides da Cunha Filho
18 jul 1894
4 jul 1915
Os Sertões, ("the backlands"; 1902), translated as Rebellion in the Backlands, is a book written by the Brazilian author Euclides da Cunha. Mixing science and literature, the author narrates the story of a war that happened in the end of the 19th century, in Canudos, a settlement of Bahia's Sertão ("backland"), an extremely arid region where, even now, struggles against poverty, drought and political corruption continue. During the war (1893–1897) against the republican army, the sertanejos (inhabitants of the backlands) were commanded by a messianic leader called Antonio Conselheiro.