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Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and the author or editor of numerous books.

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Series: Penguin Classics

Paperback: 560 pages

Publisher: Penguin Classics; Advance Review Copy edition (May 25, 2010)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9780143106074

ISBN-13: 978-0143106074

ASIN: 0143106074

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5.1 x 1.2 x 7.7 inches

Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.6 out of 5 stars

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I was in the middle of Samuel Putnam's translation of "Os Sertoes" when this new translation became available.I don't read Portuguese so I cannot evaluate either translation in terms of its fidelity to the original.I'm now rereading the book using both translations in tandem. Putnam's rendition is beautiful to read but occasionally unclear ( e.g., there are places where I have to read a sentence more than once to figure out which noun in the first part of the sentence a gerund located towards its close is meant to modify) which is where Lowe's translation comes in handy. Lowe's sentences tend to be syntactically "a straight shot", whereas Putnam's are more intricate, forcing the reader to pause between sentences , conjuring in the reader's imagination (well,in mine at least!) a narrator who takes his time relating his tale, punctuating his utterances with a sip of wine, a drag from a cigarro, or simply a moment of reflection, briefly letting the sounds of the night flood in. And it may just be, I sometimes feel, that the time it takes to process those long involved sentences in the Putnam provides the proper pace for the scenes in the book to unfold in the reader's mind. The shorter sentences in the Lowe translation occasionally result in what is probably an unintentional anaphora (since English obliges one to repeat the pronoun - He... He.. He.. or They ...They..They) creating an effect somewhat like the same melody being played faster and faster, or someone talking til he runs out of breath. One doesn't feel the urge to linger over Lowe's prose the way one does with Putnam's, but Lowe is very useful for rapid reading without losing the thread of the action. Also, and this above all else, I simply could- not- read the first sixty-odd pages of the Putnam translation, and I am glad to have the Lowe to make it accessible. I don't visualize Putnam's versions of da Cunha's descriptions of the terrain nearly as well as I do Lowe's, both in this part of the book and throughout.If Putnam "has a tendency to slightly alter, maybe even embellish" the original, as the author of the introduction to the Lowe book claims, Lowe's version sometimes reads like a paraphrase for the benefit of readers who don't want to be sent to the dictionary or encyclopedia every other page. She will omit unfamiliar allusions and unusual words (including da Cunha's own original coinages, as well as specialized terms peculiar to one of the many disciplines that he was conversant with) where retaining these would have added little or nothing to the narrative. If I were to assign this book to a group of undergraduates , I would go with the Lowe translation hands down. For someone who wants to experience "the full monty" of da Cunha's style and its occasional eccentricities, the Putnam translation may be relevant.This review should be taken as less of a plug for either Putnam or Lowe than it is for reading both translations together rather than relying exclusively on one, just as someone would read the KJV for the gorgeous prose but keep a more recent translation handy for the sake of clarity. Also there is so much going on on a single page of Os sertoes that that I often seem to notice something in one translation that I had glossed over in the other. One also occasionally runs across intriguing discrepencies - a sentence in the Putnam reads " The deposed Braganca dynasty had finally found a Monk [ as in George Monk or Monck whose military aid eased Charles II's path to the English throne and the restoration of the Stuart dynasty] in Joao Abbade" whereas the Lowe has the common noun "monk" - "The defunct Braganza royal line had found its monk in Joao Abbade". I don't have access to the original so can't tell who is right - could it be that the conventions governing capitalization in Portuguese support both readings? I wouldn't know.Finally, not including the translation and the introduction, there seems to be something curiously half-hearted on the part of Penguin Classics in putting out this book - instead of the inadequate maps in the Putnam, none whatsoever here to accompany a text that is crying out for them; also, the superficial blurb on the back with its unrepresentative quote (which for some bizarre reason is taken from Putnam's translation rather than Lowe's).

Backlands: The Canudos Campaign is one of the best military history books ever written. The detail in which Euclides da Cunha wrote is such that the reader can actually visualize the scenes depicted as if he were there. The first part of the book deals with the history and background of the people who inhabit the sertao region of northeast Brazil, as well as climate, vegetation and natural history of the area. Da Cunha was an officer in the Brazilian military who took part in the last month of the campaign to overtake Canudos from the religious fanatics, led by Antonio Conselheiro, which occurred from November 1896- October 1897. This book is a "must read" for anyone who is fascinated by Brazil and the Brazilian people, especially those called "backlanders."

If you want to know about Brazil, you must read this book. Just about any Brazilian you meet will have either read this book or at least know a fairly detailed history about the Canudos rebellion. The first-person racism of Brazil's great historian Euclides da Cunha was very difficult for me to take in, but it gives a great perspective of a cultural norm at the turn of the century (1900). To know Brazil, you must read this one at some point.

This is a slog but worth it. The horror of the story shook me even more than the fictionalized account by Llosa. daCunha must have been an odd mixture of science-of-the day and dep feelings. No wonder this is a revered book i Brazil. If we could only learn from it.

Elizabeth Lowe's translation of a Brazilian classic is good news for those who want an introduction to a famous part of Brazilian history, and it's especially useful for classes on Latin American literature taught in English. This edition is a pleasure to read.

What an education-and treat

I've just completed a book that translates da Cunha's writing on the Amazon (The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha. He is really tricky to translate because he's a) pretty brilliant;---think about translating Shakespeare into Portuguese; b) uses alot of fairly anachronistic Portuguese constructions and c) deploys a highly regional lexicon. He's also responding to intellectual and political debates of his time, and so that's why there are alot of annotated versions da Cunha"s backlands in Portuguese. He's hard even for Brazilians, but once you get into him, he is one of the most amazing writers with a very complex, and very passionate sensibility. He also is probably the best environmental writer bar none.I have the habit of working with Putnam's translation, and I think it gives you more the "feel" of da Cunha's original text, but I think the Lowe text is also very good, though I resisted at first. Its more accessible, and does get around some of the more convoluted phrasing ( the first reviewer of the book on this Amazon site did a great job of capturing the differences). The Putnam translation is 1944---almost 60 years ago, and even american English was more complex than now.This Lowe translation is likely to be easier to find, but in either translation, he deserves to be read: he is the Homer of Brazil, and "Backlands" is his Iliad. To respond to one of the other reviewers who was distressed about the racism in this volume: Da Cunha's Amazon writing talks alot oabout the backlander Odyssey into the rubber forests of Amazonia. While they had gone down in defeat in Bahia, the story that he describes in Backlands, they triumph in Amazonia, at another war at the end of the world. In Amazonia, da Cunha completely rejected the racial models he embraced earlier, arguing that the mixed blood backlanders were actually the "Bedrock" of the Brazilian People,---he calls them his bronzed titans, and they had made the Amazon, through their toil and determination a truly Brazilian place.

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