La Guerra del Fin del Mundo
Deep within the remote backlands of 19th-century Brazil sits Canudosa libertarian paradise. Home of prostitutes, bandits, beggars, Canudos embodies the revolutionary spirit in its purest and most apocalyptic form. In one of his most brilliant and tragic novels, Mario Vargas Llosa creates an...
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Deep within the remote backlands of 19th-century Brazil sits Canudosa libertarian paradise. Home of prostitutes, bandits, beggars, Canudos embodies the revolutionary spirit in its purest and most apocalyptic form. In one of his most brilliant and tragic novels, Mario Vargas Llosa creates an unforgettable tale of passion, idealism, adventure, and man's struggle to be free. Blurb in Spanish: A finales del siglo XIX, en las tierras paupérrimas del noreste del Brasil, el chispazo de las arengas del Consejero, personaje mesiánico y enigmático, prenderá la insurrección de los desheredados. En circunstancias extremas como aquellas, la consecución de la dignidad vital sólo podrá venir de la exaltación religiosa -el convencimiento fanático de la elección divina de los marginados del mundo- y el del quebranto radical de las reglas que rigen el mundo de los poderosos. Así grupos de miserables acudirán a la llamada de la revolución de Canudos, la ciudad donde se asentará esta comunidad de personajes que difícilmente desaparecerán de la imaginación del lector: el Beatito, el León de Natuba, María Quadrado... Frente a todos ellos, una trama político-militar se articula para detener con toda su fuerza el movimiento que amenaza con expandirse. La primera novela que Mario Vargas Llosa situó fuera del Perú es un prodigio de expresión de mentalidades profundas, de pasiones irracionales y desbocadas fuerzas sociales. Un relato exhaustivamente documentado, tanto a través de lecturas como de viajes sobre el terreno en que tuvo lugar este acontecimiento histórico. Un libro fundamental en la literatura del siglo XX.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789681907990 (968190799X)
ASIN: 968190799X
Publish date: November 30th 2000
Publisher: Santillana USA Publishing Company
Pages no: 719
Edition language: Spanish
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
War,
Magical Realism,
Latin American,
Latin American Literature,
Nobel Prize,
Brazil
An extremely interesting book, brilliantly executed and conceived. It is clear that this is a writer of the first order, though I do not know (I doubt, actually) that the voice is representative of Vargas Llosa's other works. An historical novel, set at the end of the 19th cen., there is a certain ...
What was Vargas Llosa intending for this novel? Even though it is surely sympathetic to the Counselor and Canudos, and it is not overbearingly so. Did he intend to serve justice to a piece of Brazilian history that is little known to the rest of the world? I understand why many readers compare this ...
I find it very difficult to put into words my thoughts on this book. This is a historical novel based on the peasant revolt that took place in Brazil in the late 19th century when a renegade priest and his followers took over an abandoned estate in Canudos and established a community that refused to...
Good God, this book is amazing. It has the massive cast and sprawl of War & Peace, and an apocalyptic feel that reminded me of - oh shut up - The Stand. It´s longer than it looks; Llosa has a terse style, so things happen at a rapid clip. It took me longer to read than I thought it would. But no...