%0 Journal Article
%T UTOPIAN AND DYSTOPIAN IMAGES OF THE DESERT AND RAINFOREST IN EUCLIDES DA CUNHA IMAGENS UT車PICAS E DIST車PICAS DO DESERTO E DA FLORESTA EM EUCLIDES DA CUNHA
%A Leopoldo M. Bernucci
%J Sign車tica
%D 2011
%I Universidade Federal de Goi芍s
%R 10.5216/sig.v23i1.16148
%X This essay focuses on two important questions in the works of Euclides da Cunha. The first question addresses the utopian and dystopian images that Euclides creates to describe and to narrate the Amazonian rainforest; the second one, also related to his writings on Amazonia, refers to Euclides＆s linguistic matrices of duplication used in Rebellion in the Backlands and also 角 margem da hist車ria. Delving into the meaning of his incomplete and unpublished book, Um para赤so perdido [A Lost Paradise], the present study seeks to demonstrate the difficulties that, as a scientist, Euclides is confronted with in his critical observation of the complexity of the Amazonian ecosystem in its relation with its inhabitants. From the artist＆s perspective, Euclides＆s hesitation and oscillation between a favorable and unfavorable representation of Amazonia is also closely examined in this essay. As an unfinished project, Um para赤so perdido replicates similar lines of thought and language styles he had utilized in Rebellion in the Backlands. So much desired, but abruptly and unknowingly aborted, Um para赤so perdido signals in principle the same strong aspiration found in Rebellion in the Backlands. Again, according to him the new unfinished book had to be avenging. Such social commitment on the part of Euclides gives more weight to his already high stature as a man of sciences and letters. Always adjusted to a classical and unusual diction of his unique language, both of his texts, Rebellion in the Backlands and 角 margem da hist車ria, share a common characteristic. In them, Euclides uses linguistics formulas that repeat themselves, revealing his mode of thinking and writing, which approximates, culturally and artistically, two geographic regions that are generally considered contradictory, the desert and the forest. Este estudo aborda duas quest es principais na obra de Euclides da Cunha. A primeira se refere 角s imagens ut車picas e dist車picas criadas pelo autor para descrever e narrar a floresta amaz nica; e a segunda, tamb谷m ligada aos escritos de Euclides sobre a Amaz nia, remete-se a matrizes lingu赤sticas de duplica  o empregadas por ele tanto em Os sert es como em 角 margem da hist車ria. Discorrendo sobre o significado que o seu livro incompleto e n o publicado, Um para赤so perdido, pode gerar quando esmiu ado como projeto grandioso e nunca acabado, este ensaio tenta demonstrar as dificuldades que Euclides confronta ao estudar como cientista a complexidade da natureza amaz nica e sua rela  o com os seus habitantes; e como artista, sua relutancia e oscila  o entre uma represen
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