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CASACOR SP 2024 - Livraria Os Sertões do Saber

“O sertanejo, antes de tudo, é um forte… E o sertão é um paraíso”. Clássica frase do livro ‘Os Sertões’, de Euclides da Cunha, inspirou o projeto da arquiteta Marina Salomão na 37ª CASACOR São Paulo, que tem as raízes e histórias brasileiras envolvidas em sua concepção. CASACOR 2024 Sertões do Saber @ Rafael Renzo Ao longo dos 68 m² de extensão da livraria, desde a entrada com portas metálicas…

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“the sertanejos were staging the same rude, sinister,, monotonous drama of which they were the invisible protagonists. No matter how long or arduous their apprenticeship in the art of war, their system never varied, for the reason that, by its very excellence, it admitted of no corrections or additions.”

-Euclides Da Cunha, Backlands: The Canudos Campaign (pg. 210)

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Week 7 reading blog

This week I read pages 170-200 of Euclides Da Cunha's Backlands: The Canudos Campaign.

While reading, Da Cunha starts talking about the battle, how Conselheiro contributed to it by acting like the messiah, destined to lead these poorly trained and educated farmers against military men. Since Conselheiro was already on police radar due to preaching against Brazil's new republic. Since the Canudos was far, the authorities decided to send a small force to dispose of these farmers. Although the republic's forces gained the upper hand, the sertanejos caught them by surprise and put up a fight.

Word count: 100

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"He asked for help to assure the safety of the residents and to avoid an exodus of the population that, in fact, had already begun."

-Euclides Da Cunha, Backlands: The Canudos Campaign (pg. 188)

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"and when, little by little, they had sifted through the last of their pebbles and exhausted their stock of furs, they had no other recourse but to turn to banditry in order to continue their undisciplined way of life."

-Euclides Da Cunha, Backlands: The Canudos Campaign (pg. 183)

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"Here in Brazil, from the bishop to the last Catholic, we recognize the government. Only you refuse to pledge allegiance to it? This is evil thinking, and you are following a false doctrine."

-Euclides Da Cunha, Backlands: The Canudos Campaign (pg. 175)

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Week 5 Reading Blog

Week 5 of reading Backlands: The Canudos Campaign consisted of learning about the campaign's leader Antonio Conselheiro. Conselheiro was at the forefront of this campaign and Da Cunha explains how he became a symbol of resistance to the people of the Backlands. Da Cunha also explains how Conselheiro had psychotic episodes that led to his ultimate demise. Leading to why he had these episodes, Da Cunha explains his entire family history. Before Antonio became the Conselheiro, he was Antonio Maciel, the son of a family who stood against the richest family in the sertao (backlands). His grandfather and his sister fought against that family almost leading to the extinction of the Maciel line until one day, Conselheiro's grandmother found and k*lled the leader of the opposing family, therefore securing the Maciel line and giving way to Antonio's success as a resistance symbol for the backlanders.

Once again, Da Cunha builds up to the campaign by telling the story of how its leader came to be and how without him, the backlands would not have stood up to the First Brazilian Republic.

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"Do ceu veio uma luz, que Jesus Cristo mandou, Santo Antonio aparecido dos castigo nos livrou."

(From the sky came a light, that Jesus Christ sent, showed Saint Anthony, from punishment he delivered us!)

-Euclides Da Cunha, Blacklands: The Canudos Campaign (pg. 160)