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Ein Meister an der Peripherie des Kapitalismus ist das erste ins Deutsche übersetzte Werk des Literatur- und Kulturkritikers Roberto Schwarz. In dieser 1990 auf Portugiesisch erschienenen Studie analysiert Schwarz den Roman Postume Memoiren des Brás Cubas (1880) von Machado de Assis (Rio de Janeiro, 1839-1908), einer zentralen Figur der lateinamerikanischen Literatur. Scharfsinnig zeigt Schwarz auf, dass der Roman weder brasilianische Besonder...

Newly available in English, a magisterial work by one of the world's most esteemed Marxist literary critics.

First published in Portuguese in 1977, 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.

A groundbreaking collection of essays by the esteemed Brazilian literary critic

A groundbreaking collection of essays by the esteemed Brazilian literary critic

A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto Schwarz’s renowned study of the work of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839–1908). A leading Brazilian theorist and author of the highly influential notion of “misplaced ideas, ” Schwarz focuses his literary and cultural analysis on Machado’s The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, which was published in 1880. Writing in the Marxist tradition...

A translation of Schwarz's study of the work of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908).

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 recurrent themes are the dangers of nationalism, and the notion of "Third World" literature.