Abstract
In a previous essay, Locura y dolor: la elaboraci6n de la historia en Os Sertoes y La guerra delfin del mundo,' I have tried to unhinge metaphor(s) by which both Euclides da Cunha and Mario Vargas Llosa elaborate their understanding of history and signification of events of Canudos as history. In that essay I showed first that Euclides da Cunha's original metaphor-Darwin's theory of evolution-reaches its own limits as soon as historical description of Sertao is over and narrative of events of Canudos must begin. At that point Euclides must account for presence of Conselheiro as a man whose word is capable of mobilizing great masses of people into an unprecedented plan of action. Euclides, self-depicted as the scientist, reaches quickly and most respectably into another 19th
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