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

Schwarz, Roberto; Sousa, Ronald W. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1642593443 / ISBN 13: 9781642593440

Published by Haymarket Books, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: To the Victor, the Potatoes! : Literary Form and Social Process in the Beginnings of the Brazilian Novel
• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1642593443
• ISBN 13: 9781642593440
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

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 iniacios do romance brasileiro 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.

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.