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
- ISBN10 0330345664
- ISBN13 9780330345668
- Publish Date 23 February 1996 (first published 15 September 1957)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 July 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Imprint Picador
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 800
- Language English