Rebellion in the Backlands doesn't constitute the only, nor the first text to deal with genocide resulting from the shock between the National Army, championed by the Republican ideal at that time recently implanted - the Republic was established in 1889 and the skirmishes in the interior of the State of Bahia began in 1896 -, and the command of Antônio Conselheiro. Euclides da Cunha was preceded by himself, since in 1897, he sent out from the trenches of the war, dispatches, published in the press, narrating the events of the day. Then, during the same year chronicles by Machado de Assis, Olavo Bilac and Afonso Arinos laid out the positions - divergent amongst themselves - of the players, characterizing the controversial manner with which the conflict had been revealed to public opinion.
Perhaps, however, not one of these texts, including the curious romance of Afonso Arinos,Os Jagunços (The Ruffians ) written in 1898, favorable to the insurgents, would have awakened the......
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