None of these concepts really fit into the texts as jigsaw puzzle pieces: they are rather attempts —essayers- to generate a conversation about the possibility of reading modern literature about the region as a post-colonial discourse. These are exceptionally beautiful frogs and the discoverers were very excited to have found them. In other words, if modern literature speaks of and destabilizes the relationship between Amazonia and capitalism, the novel is the genre where this needed to happen. His vision of Amazonia is in dialogue with geological and geo-morphological theories of his time, not only the ones developed by Wallace and Hartt, but also by the ones developed by Charles Lyell, that claimed that Amazonia was a recent geological formation created as a result of the rise of the Andes mountain range, which would explain its pre-historic aspect. Even the most ordered of minds can become unbalanced on inquiring into such grandeur.
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