Schwarz Roberto - Two Girls And Other Essays - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Roberto Schwarz is the foremost literary critic of his generation in Brazil and the most important Marxist practitioner in the tradition of the Frankfurt School writing anywhere today. This collection confirms the international significance of Schwarz's critical achievement. Studies of Kafka and Brecht respectively open and close the volume which includes incisive studies of contemporary poetry and fiction in Brazil. The centerpiece is the hitherto untranslated Two Girls which brings together two strongly contrasting narratives of girls lives one a classic novel the other an adolescent's diary to substantiate the crucial concept of objective form. With key reflections on theory and method and an illuminating account of the general historical importance of his exemplary Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis Two Girls compellingly demonstrates the logic and significance of Schwarz's work for an English - language readership.
Title: Two Girls And Other Essays
Author(s): Schwarz Roberto, Francis Mulhern
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844679652
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 1/16/2013
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers