Here Howard Becker makes available for an English-speaking audience
a collection of the provocative work of Antonio Candido, one of the
leading men of letters in Brazil. Trained as a sociologist, Candido
conceives of literature as a social project and is equally at home
in textual analyses, discussions of literary theory, and
sociological, anthropological, and historical argument. It would be
impossible to overstate his impact on the intellectual life of his
own country, and on Latin American scholars who can read
Portuguese, but he is little known in the rest of the world. In
literary, women's, and cultural studies, as well as in sociology,
this book contributes a sophisticated and unusual perspective that
will dazzle readers unfamiliar with Candido's work. Emphasizing the
breadth of Candido's interests, the essays include those on
European literature (Dumas, Conrad, Kafka, and Cavafy, for
example), on Brazilian literature (Machado de Assis and others), on
Brazilian cultural life and politics, and on general problems of
criticism (the relations between sociology and criticism, and the
problem of literature in underdeveloped countries). Of particular
interest is a long piece on Teresina Carini Rocchi, an Italian
immigrant to Brazil, who was a lifelong socialist. Originally
published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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