The War of the End of the World (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Plot: Historical chronicle
- Time of Work: The late 1890’s
- Setting: Brazil, primarily the backlands
- Principal Characters: The Counselor, Galileo Gall, Epaminodas Goncalves, Baron de Canabrava, Rufino, The Nearsighted Journalist, Jurema
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: History, Journalism or journalists, Nineteenth century, Revolutions, Religion, Brazil or Brazilians, Antichrist figures, Prophecy or prophets
- Locales: Brazil
The Novel
Using the epoch-making historical work of Euclides da Cunha, Os sertões (1902; Rebellion in the Backlands, 1944), Vargas Llosa re-creates the turbulent events of late nineteenth century Brazil in a novel of revolution that has a clear relationship to the continuing history of revolt in Latin America as exemplified in the Maoist el sendero luminoso of his native Peru. As he elaborates the facts and biases of Cunha’s “Bible of Brazilian Nationality,” he follows the career of the millenarian preacher Antonio Conselhiero, his sectarian...
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