num_pages: 624
description: ***Courtesy of TwoBears Books*** To compare "THE WAR OF THE END OF THE WORLD" with the great historical novels of a Tolstoy or a Stendhal is no hyperbole. Vargas Llosa has chosen to retell one of the crucial events of Latin the uprising in the Brazilian backlands that almost reversed the history of the continent. It is the story of an apocalyptic prophet and the state he created-Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth, to prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and their like. In Canudos, history and civilization are turned on their ears. There is no money, property, marriage, no income tax, decimal system, or census. Canudos is the revolutionary spirit in it's purest and most apocalyptic form-a state which promises to be a libertarian paradise but which the forces of the modern world and of the nation-state cannot tolerate.
language: English
title: The War of the End of the World
titlecomplete: The War of the End of the World
genres: Fiction, Brazil, War, Latin American, Spanish Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 10708
places: Canudos
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: PEN Translation Prize
category: Prose for Helen R. Lane
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux