Euclides da Cunha

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Euclides (archaic spelling Euclydes) da Cunha (January 20, 1866August 15, 1909), was a Brazilian writer, sociologist and engineer. His most important work is Os Sertões (Rebellion in the backlands), a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the Brazilian government against the rebellious village of Canudos, known as the War of Canudos. This book was a favorite of Robert Lowell, who put it above Tolstoy, though he only read it in the rather poor English translation.

Euclides da Cunha was also heavily influenced by Naturalism and its Darwinian proponents. Os Sertões characterised the coast of Brazil as a chain of civilisations while the interior was more primitively influenced.

Euclides da Cunha was the basis for the character of The Journalist in Mario Vargas Llosa's The War of the End of the World.

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  • 1902 Os Sertões (Rebellion in the Backlands)
  • 1907 Contrastes e confrontos, lit. Contrasts and Confrontations
  • 1907 Peru versus Bolívia
  • 1939 Canudos, diário de uma expedição - news articles published in the periodical O Estado de São Paulo
  • 1967 Canudos e inéditos - news articles published by the periodical O Estado de São Paulo
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Euclides da Cunha site, São Paulo, Brazil(portuguese language)

Casa Euclidiana, São José do Rio Pardo, São Paulo, Brazil(portuguese language)