A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism
Machado de Assis
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Gewicht:
345 g
Format:
235x151x15 mm
Beschreibung:
"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
A translation (from the original Portuguese) of the author's study of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908). It focuses on Machado's "The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas". It investigates how social structure gets internalized as literary form, arguing that Machado's style reveals the embedded class divisions of 19th-century Brazil.
Introduction / John GledsonPreface1. Initial Observations2. A Formal Principle3. The Practical Matrix4. Some Implications of the Prose5. The Social Aspect of the Narrator and the Plot6. The Fate of the Poor7. The Rich on Their Own8. The Role of Ideas9. Questions of Form10. Literary Accumulation in a Periferal CountryNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex