Two Girls: And Other Essays - Softcover

Schwarz, Roberto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844679659 ISBN 13: 9781844679652

Publisher: Verso Books, 2013

Synopsis

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 has been conceived with the aim of demonstrating the logic and significance of his work for an English-language readership. 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 confirms the international significance of Schwarz's critical achievement.

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About the Authors

Roberto Schwarz, born in Vienna in 1938, grew up in São Paulo, studying there and later in the United States and France. His books in English include Two Girls, Misplaced Ideas: Essays on Brazilian Culture and A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism, the central component of his study of Machado.

Francis Mulhern (born 1952) comes from Enniskillen in Northern Ireland. He was educated at University College Dublin and the University of Cambridge. His books include The Moment of 'Scrutiny' and Culture/Metaculture. He is Associate Editor of New Left Review.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844679659
• ISBN 13: 9781844679652
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Mulhern Francis