RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Os Sertões, de Euclides da Cunha: Espaços JF Luso-Brazilian Review JO Luso-Braz Rev FD University of Wisconsin Press SP 71 OP 79 DO 10.3368/lbr.41.1.71 VO 41 IS 1 A1 Maria Zilda Ferreira Cury YR 2004 UL http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/41/1/71.abstract 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.