War of Canudos
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The War of Canudos was a conflict between the First Brazilian Republic and the residents of Canudos in the northeastern state of Bahia, between 1896 and 1897. It was waged in the aftermath of the abol
A view of the village of Canudos. Typical constructions such as the one in the foreground were very basic, made of mud and straw
The 40th Infantry Battalion, sent from the Pará state to quell the Canudos rebellion, 1897
Caricature showing Antônio Conselheiro with an entourage of jesters armed with ancient blunderbusses, trying to stop the Republic, Revista Illustrada, c. 1896. The caption reads: "[He is] even daring to tell the Republic: 'hold on! You shall not pass...'"
The 24th Infantry Battalion in Canudos, 1897
The War of the End of the World is a 1981 novel written by Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. It is a fictionalized account of the War of Canudos conflic
War of Canudos
…Benício, Manoel. O Rei dos Jagunços. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Fundação Getúlio Vargas. 2a. edição, 1997 Mario Vargas Llosa. The War of the End of the World. Novel. 1981 Guerra de Canudos (The Battle of Canudos). Motion picture directed by Sérgio Rezende, with José Wilker, Cláudia Abreu, Paulo Betti, and…
First Spanish edition (publ. Seix Barral)