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"This is a masterpiece of criticism. The coherence of Schwarz's perspective and the clarity with which he elaborates the economic and cultural insights that form his dialectical approach to literature make his study a paradigmatic one for theoretical enterprise. By concentrating his interpretive talents on Machado's style, Schwarz also illuminates a question that has puzzled many present Machado readers: Why do we find him so satisfylingly contemporary?"--Leslie Damasceno, Duke University
Sommario
Introduction / John Gledson
Preface
1. Initial Observations
2. A Formal Principle
3. The Practical Matrix
4. Some Implications of the Prose
5. The Social Aspect of the Narrator and the Plot
6. The Fate of the Poor
7. The Rich on Their Own
8. The Role of Ideas
9. Questions of Form
10. Literary Accumulation in a Periferal Country
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Info autore
Roberto Schwarz, one of Brazil’s foremost literary and cultural critics, is the author of Misplaced Ideas: Essays on Brazilian Culture and Duas Meninas. John Gledson is Emeritus Professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of two books about Machado de Assis and was the translator of Misplaced Ideas, the only other English translation of a work by Schwarz.
Riassunto
A translation (from the original Portuguese) of the author's renowned study of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908). It investigates in particular how social structure gets internalised as literary form, arguing that Machado's style replicates and reveals the deeply embedded class divisions of nineteenth-century Brazil.
