To the Victor, the Potatoes!

Newly available in English, a magisterial work by one of the world's most esteemed Marxist literary critics.

List of contents

Reading the Truth of Falseness: An Introduction
Acknowledgements
ABBC Interview with Roberto Schwarz, on the Subject of Machado de Assis

1 Misplaced Ideas
2 The Importation of the Novel and Its Contradictions in Alencar
3 Paternalism and Its Rationalisation in Machado de Assis' Early Novels

Bibliography
Index

About the author

Roberto Schwarz is a Brazilian literary critic. His works constitute one of the major bodies of Marxist literary scholarship of the twentieth century.

Summary

Newly available in English, a magisterial work by one of the world's most esteemed Marxist literary critics.

Product details

• Authors: Roberto Schwarz, Schwarz Roberto
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.12.2020
• EAN: 9781642593440
• ISBN: 978-1-64259-344-0
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Historical Materialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; South America, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, Literary studies: general, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Literary theory, History of the Americas, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, Marxism & Communism