To the Victor, the Potatoes!: Literary Form and Social Process in the Beginnings of the Brazilian Novel

Roberto Schwarz

To the Victor, the Potatoes!: Literary Form and Social Process in the Beginnings of the Brazilian Novel
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
NL
Published
28 November 2019
Pages
154
ISBN
9789004417700

To the Victor, the Potatoes!: Literary Form and Social Process in the Beginnings of the Brazilian Novel

Roberto Schwarz

Literary forms travel from core countries to the periphery of capitalism, where they are adopted under social conditions that differ from those in the countries of their origin. Besides being inevitable, the resulting maladjustments lead to new and original aesthetic problems, presenting to the reader the symptoms of the world’s complexity. When properly worked through, these allow for the rise of world-class art, as in the case of the great Brazilian novels by Machado de Assis.

First published in Portuguese in 1977 as Ao vencedor as batatas: Forma literaria e processo social nos inicios do romance brasileiro by Duas Cidades/Editora 34, ISBN 978-85-7326-169-2, and presented here in a new English-language translation, To the Victor, the Potatoes! is a major work of one of the most significant Marxist literary critics of our time.

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