Rebellion in the Backlands (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226124445)

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

Author: Euclides Da Cunha
ISBN-10: 0226124444
ISBN-13: 9780226124445
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/1957
Pages: 562
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.36w x 1.18d