Notes on Antonio Candido and the Brazilian Novel of the 1930s
Dimitri Takamatsu Arantes
Abstract:From the beginning of his career as a literary critic, in the early 1940s, Antonio Candido gave centrality to modernist production, a field in which he developed fundamental elements of his intellectual thinking. In this article, we will reconstitute the main lines of Antonio Candido’s criticism of the so-called romance of the 1930s [Brazilian novels of the 1930]. As this is a favorite subject of the author’s, disseminated in numerous texts covering at least forty years of intellectual activity we will analyze… Show more
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