The turn and the voice of the sertanejo in The War of the end of the world
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2011v21p125Keywords:
Latin American literature, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alterity, Narrative of the oppressedAbstract
In 1972, the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa read the Brazilian book Os Sertões [The Backlands] by Euclides da Cunha. Published in 1902, this work tells the story of the War of Canudos that took place in Brazil in the end of the nineteenth century. It soon arose the interest of Llosa who started writing a novel about this subject in 1977, which was later called The war of the end of the world. Llosa uses this episode in the nineteenth century as a symbolic way of reading Latin America’s historic situation in the 1970s. This paper aims at discussing the aesthetic and ideological aspects of the novel by taking into consideration ideas on alterity and the reports of the oppressed that inhabit The war of the end of the world.References
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