Misplaced Ideas spans the 19th and 20th centuries, and examines the life and work of Brazil's most influential novelist, Machado de Assis, as well as Brazilian film, poetry, theatre and music. Among the themes that run through the text are the dangers of nationalism, the West's attraction for exotic backwardness and the notion of Third World literature.
Misplaced Ideas spans the 19th and 20th centuries, and examines the life and work of Brazil's most influential novelist, Machado de Assis, as well as ...
A translation (from the original Portuguese) of the author's renowned study of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908). It investigates in particular how social structure gets internalised as literary form, arguing that Machado's style replicates and reveals the deeply embedded class divisions of nineteenth-century Brazil.
A translation (from the original Portuguese) of the author's renowned study of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908). It investigates in par...
