RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Euclides e a literatura: Comentários sobre a “moldura” de Os Sertões JF Luso-Brazilian Review JO Luso-Braz Rev FD University of Wisconsin Press SP 45 OP 62 DO 10.3368/lbr.43.2.45 VO 43 IS 2 A1 Gouveia Fernandes, Raúl C. YR 2006 UL http://lbr.uwpress.org/content/43/2/45.abstract AB Traditionally Os Sertões has always been described as a “hybrid” book, in which Euclides da Cunha intended to associate science with art, but this statement has been contested by recent studies. Luiz Costa Lima claims that literary speech in Os Sertões merely plays an auxiliary and ornamental role compared to the author’s main purpose, which was to undertake a scientific analysis of the conflict held in Canudos according to nineteenth-century scientism. The present article argues that in Euclides da Cunha’s work literary and scientific speeches are not opposite, but represent two complementary ways of knowing reality.