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 literaria e processo social nos iniacios do romance brasileiro 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.
ISBN: 9781642593440
Publication date: December 22, 2020
Reading the Truth of Falseness: An Introduction
Acknowledgements
ABBC Interview with Roberto Schwarz, on the Subject of Machado de Assis
1 Misplaced Ideas
2 The Importation of the Novel and Its Contradictions in Alencar
3 Paternalism and Its Rationalisation in Machado de Assis' Early Novels
Bibliography
Index
“Roberto Schwarz's To the Victor, the Potatoes! is one of the great works of comparative literature. It belongs on a shelf with Erich Auerbach's Mimesis, Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious, Pascale Casanova's The World Republic of Letters, Georg Lukács's The Historical Novel, Edward Said's Orientalism.”
—Nicholas Brown, Novel
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