THE AUTHOR: Euclides Rodrigues Pimenta of Cunha, (Rio de Janeiro 1866-1909). Filho of Manuel Rodrigues Pimenta and of D. Eudóxia Moreira of Cunha, it studied the Polytechnic School and the Military School, being known by the republican ardor. Essayist, sociologist, had a frustrated life. He/she didn''t get to be an engineer, it didn''t get to be soldierly and it was unhappy in his/her marriage. The great knowledge of his/her life was to have gone as correspondent, in 1896, for the theater of the operations against the village of Tubes, in the interior of Bahia. Of that experience, he/she obtained the material with that it elaborated his/her great work, “THE INTERIORS”, published in 1902 with enormous success.
Chronology: The Interiors (1902); Peru Versus Bolívia (1907); Contrasts and Confrontations (1907); TO THE Margin of the History (1909); Tubes (Diary of an Expedition) (1939).
“The Interiors” it is a monumental work, that he/she opened new phase in the Brazilian studies, unmasking with violence and pessimism the contrast of cultures, that marks our civilization. Under the literary aspect, the influence of his/her very personal style was in general bad, being sometimes obscure for excess vocabular. He/she only overcomes these defects, dissolving them in the noble and heroic integrity of his/her moral and social vision.
The work is structured in three parts:
THE EARTH: analysis of the geographical and ecological conditionings of the area.
THE MAN: analysis of the cultural habits. The miscegenation and the superstition as cause of the messianismo.
THE FIGHT: the conflict resulting from the man''s contradictions, of the earth against the forces external opressoras.
The work narrates the campaign against the fanatic guided by a messianic boss, Antonio Maciel, common people Counselor, until the crush of his/her stronghold. It is a courageous deposition about the truth of the facts, daring to hurt the traditional intangibilidade of the Armed forces.
The country ones that you/they took refuge in the town of Tubes, where they created a community style of life, they could not be considered criminals but products of a series of factors economical, geographical, racial and historical. Abandoned for the governments, the miserable population of the interior-formed by the mixture of the white, with the black and the Indian-it was if isolating more and more, being organized in closed communities and very delayed culturally, facilitating the appearance of the mysticism and fanaticism religious persons. With that he/she grew up a favorable situation to the leaders'' performance capable to electrify crowds with their paradise promises and redemption.
Antônio Maciel''s charismatic illustration, the Counselor, accomplished that leader paper, agglutinating around itself a crowd of country miserable, thirsty of hope and of better life conditions. The uncomfortable presence of that populated, whose population increased plenty, you/he/she ended up provoking the troops policemen''s interference. The obstinate resistance of the country ones, so that the fight was covered of religious character, it went turning the combat more and more violent, in spite of the difference of resources, until the involvement of federal troops, that, after a long time, they devastated the village of Tubes, in an impressive carnage.
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WORK:
Narrator: 3rd person, omniscient.
Space: Interior of Bahia (village of Tubes).
Time: narrative (1896/97); of the work (1902)
Characters: The country (Antônio Conselheiro); bosses gunmen, Turn-big, Pajeu, Pedrão, Tanca-feet, Crooked Mouth, Chico Ema, João Abade, beside names that indicate origin: Quinquim of Coiqui, Fabrício of Cocobocó. Colonels Moreira César and Tamarind, the general Machado Bittencourt, many militate: Wounds Teles, Silqueira of Menezes, among others.
Expressive resources: the description prevails. Lexicon excess and syntactic; I like for the antitheses, due the violent images, he/she becomes Baroque. It possesses tendencies for the rhetorical. Words technical or scientific. Presence of the colloquialism (according to speaking of the country).
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