/lit/ - Literature

You can read the book about the war written by a guy who was there and saw everything.
Vargas Llosa will say he is hated in Brazil because he wrote about their history, but the problem is how and why he wrote about their history. While, in the work of da Cunha, you see an aristocrat facing the reality and changing what his beliefs; in the work of Vargas Llosa, you see a man using a historical event to push his beliefs on the reader.
The first 100 pages are about geological and geographic autism and this tends to filter most people, but after it you'll find the definitive work of Brazilian literature.