Antonio Candido

<p>Here Howard Becker makes available for an English-speaking audience a collection of the provocative work of Antonio Candido one of the leading men of letters in Brazil. Trained as a sociologist Candido conceives of literature as a social project and is equally at home in textual analyses discussions of literary theory and sociological anthropological and historical argument. It would be impossible to overstate his impact on the intellectual life of his own country and on Latin American scholars who can read Portuguese but he is little known in the rest of the world. In literary womens and cultural studies as well as in sociology this book contributes a sophisticated and unusual perspective that will dazzle readers unfamiliar with Candidos work.<br><br>Emphasizing the breadth of Candidos interests the essays include those on European literature (Dumas Conrad Kafka and Cavafy for example) on Brazilian literature (Machado de Assis and others) on Brazilian cultural life and politics and on general problems of criticism (the relations between sociology and criticism and the problem of literature in underdeveloped countries). Of particular interest is a long piece on Teresina Carini Rocchi an Italian immigrant to Brazil who was a lifelong socialist.<br><br>Originally published in 1995.<br><br>The <b>Princeton Legacy Library</b> uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.</p>