Euclides da Cunha nas vascas da modernidade // Euclides da Cunha in the throes of modernity

Abstract

Euclides da Cunha embraced the role of posthumous champion of the backlanders slaughtered by the Brazilian army during the Canudos War. He claimed to have written an “avenging book”. Coming of age at the turn of the century, his work would bear witness to a Modernity that was both historical and aesthetic.

Keywords

• Euclides da Cunha
• tradition
• Modernity
• tradição
• modernidade