PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Maria Zilda Ferreira Cury TI - <em>Os Sertões,</em> de Euclides da Cunha: Espaços AID - 10.3368/lbr.41.1.71 DP - 2004 Jun 01 TA - Luso-Brazilian Review PG - 71--79 VI - 41 IP - 1 4099 - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/41/1/71.short 4100 - http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/41/1/71.full SO - Luso-Braz Rev2004 Jun 01; 41 AB - Os Sertões, by Euclides da Cunha, is considered a classic of Brazilian literature and one of the most powerful accounts of Brazilian reality. One of the keys to the contemporary success of the book lies in its questioning of nineteenth-century views of both the nation and modernization.