Euclides da Cunha
Euclides da Cunha (born January 20, 1866 in Cantagalo , Rio de Janeiro , † August 15, 1909 in Piedade , Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian author , publicist and military engineer .
Life
Euclides da Cunha attended the Technical College of the Brazilian Army .
His best-known work is Os Sertões (German 1994 under the title War in Sertão ), in which he described the events surrounding the destruction of the Canudos settlement and thus made it known to a larger audience. Cunha was a contemporary and eyewitness to the Canudos War, as he witnessed the last three weeks of the military campaign as a reporter for the republican daily newspaper Estado de São Paulo .
The writer Jorge Amado called this work “the least read but most discussed book in Brazil”. Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa served Os Sertões as a template for his novel La guerra del fin del mundo (1981). He described Da Cunha's work as a manual on the Latin American way of being, as all the cultural and ethnic elements of the subcontinent are represented in it.
Euclides da Cunha was strongly influenced by positivism , naturalism and Darwinism . On August 15, 1909, da Cunha tried to shoot his wife Ana Emília's lover, Lieutenant Dilermando de Assis , in his house. After shooting Dinorah de Assis, the lieutenant's brother, the writer was shot dead in self-defense by Dilermando de Assis. Ana Emilia and her lover married as soon as possible and had five children.
In honor of Cunha, the town of Cumbe, not far from the former Canudos, was renamed Euclides da Cunha .
Works
- 1902 Os Sertões , German War in the Sertao , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1994, new edition (third edition) 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-42376-9 .
- 1907 Contrastes e confrontos
- 1907 Peru versus Bolívia
- 1939 Canudos, diário de uma expedição - later news article in O Estado de São Paulo magazine
- 1967 Canudos e inéditos - later news article in O Estado de São Paulo magazine
literature
- Erhard Engler : Euclides da Cunha - a spiritual champion for the national independence of Brazil . Diss. University of Rostock 1975.
- Susanna B. Hecht: The scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost paradise" of Euclides da Cunha . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2013, ISBN 978-0-226-32281-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Euclides da Cunha in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Euclides da Cunha in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin
- La guerra del fin del mundo ( Memento of October 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Battle of Canudos . In: Die Zeit , No. 41/1997
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cunha, Euclides there |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Brazilian author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cantagalo , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 15, 1909 |
| Place of death | Piedade , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |