The stigma of a book

Euclides da Cunha´s literary work and the influence of positivism and evolutionism on it

Abstract

This article analyzes the influence of positivism and evolutionism on the literary work of Euclides da Cunha making a relativization of the idea that Euclides da Cunha was essentially positivist. With this work, we intend to understand how this memory that associates, almost exclusively, Euclides da Cunha to positivism was created and who were the social agents involved in this construction.