Os Caucheiros: Trechos Selecionados de "À Margem da História", de Euclides da Cunha

by Euclides da Cunha

Um testemunho pungente da violência com que tribos inteiras eram exterminadas por conta do caucho – gênero de goma concorrente da eis o teor de Os caucheiros, de Euclides da Cunha, extraído do livro À margem da história. Que é caucheiro? O autor bem o "O caucheiro é irritantemente absurdo na sua brutalidade elegante... É o homúnculo da civilização".

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Published April 25, 2023

About the author

Euclides (archaic spelling Euclydes) da Cunha (January 20, 1866 – August 15, 1909) was a Brazilian writer, sociologist and engineer. His most important work is Os Sertões (Rebellion in the backlands), a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the Brazilian government against the rebellious village of Canudos, known as the War of Canudos. This book was a favorite of Robert Lowell, who put it above Tolstoy, the Russian writer.

Euclides da Cunha was also heavily influenced by Naturalism and its Darwinian proponents. Os Sertões characterised the coast of Brazil as a chain of civilisations while the interior was more primitively influenced.

Euclides da Cunha was the basis for the character of The Journalist in Mario Vargas Llosa's The War of the End of the World.