| To the Victor, the Potatoes!: Literary Form and Social Process in the Beginnings of the Brazilian Novel Contributor(s): Schwarz (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004417702 ISBN-13: 9789004417700 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $143.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Series: Historical Materialism Book |
| Physical Information: 180 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 liter ria e processo social nos in cios 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. |