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Os Sertões é a obra fundadora do pré-modernismo brasileiro. Em linguagem analítica e jornalística, faz um relato da Guerra de Canudos, liderada por Antônio Conselheiro no interior da Bahia, entre 1896 a 1897. Quando redigiu a obra, Euclides da Cunha tinha a pretensão de transformá-la em um estudo de tese jornalística, mas ao presenciar as atrocidades vividas neste conflito sangrento, mudou o rumo de sua narrativa, incluindo também o tom crítico contra as injúrias cometidas ao homem nordestino.

Any kind of death annuls everything except his present knowledge and returns him to the past. This is a good way to test all sorts of things. That is, it would be, if not for one little thing.... This loop has real lords and it's unlikely that they'll be happy to hear about an uninvited guest. And that isn't his only problem - all of his memories of the last year have simply disappeared, but the world around him has changed in the meantime.

Wien 1919: Traumatisiert und mit nur einem Bein kehrt Andreas Pum von den Schlachtfeldern des Ersten Weltkrieges nach Hause zurück. Das Glück steht zunächst auf der Seite des Kriegsinvaliden: Er findet eine Frau und schlägt sich als Leierkastenmann auf den Hinterhöfen durch. Aber dann wendet sich das Blatt und sein sozialer Abstieg scheint unvermeidlich. Joseph Roths kluge, melancholische Geschichte über die verzweifelte Auflehnung eines um Anpassung an die bürgerliche Gesellschaft bemühten einfachen Mannes ist so zeitlos wie existenziell.

New Haven 57 is opening for business - bigger landscape, nicer homes, and tougher reconditioning techniques that will make resistant glistenings docile. A caravan of glistenings from overcrowded concentration camps are en route to their new home. For Jenna Morgan, it's the final job before she retires forever to a happy low key life.