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The War of the End of the World

Mario Vargas Llosa · 1981 CE · Novel · Latin American · Contemporary

A wandering preacher gathers the drought-ruined of the Brazilian backlands into a holy city at Canudos that refuses the new republic's census, taxes and civil marriage, and four military expeditions are sent to erase it. A short-sighted Scottish anarchist, a circus dwarf and a landowning baron watch the republic invent a monarchist plot to explain what it cannot beat. His largest book, and his one Brazilian subject.

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Genre
HistoricalWarPolitical
Theme
Faith & DoubtWar & ViolenceClass & Inequality
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Rebel / OutlawScapegoat
Plot structure
PolyphonicSiege / Last StandChronicle
Symbol / motif
The BattlefieldFireThe Wilderness
Conflict
vs Society
Mode / tone
EpicRealistTragic
Culture / tradition
Latin American

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