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A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Duke University Press<\/a>
\n2001
\n232 pages
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2210-8
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2239-9<\/p>\n

Roberto Schwarz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Translated by:<\/p>\n

John Gledson<\/strong><\/a>, Emeritus Professor of Brazilian Studies
\nUniversity of Liverpool<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism<\/em> is a translation (from the original Portuguese) of Roberto Schwarz\u2019s renowned study of the work of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis<\/a> (1839\u20131908). A leading Brazilian theorist and author of the highly influential notion of \u201cmisplaced ideas,\u201d Schwarz focuses his literary and cultural analysis on Machado\u2019s The Posthumous Memoirs of Br\u00e1s Cubas<\/em><\/a>, which was published in 1880. Writing in the Marxist tradition, Schwarz investigates in particular how social structure gets internalized as literary form, arguing that Machado\u2019s style replicates and reveals the deeply embedded class divisions of nineteenth-century Brazil<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Widely acknowledged as the most important novelist to have written in Latin America<\/a> before 1940, Machado had a surprisingly modern style. Schwarz notes that the unprecedented wit, sarcasm, structural inventiveness, and mercurial changes of tone and subject matter found in The Posthumous Memoirs of Br\u00e1s Cuba<\/em>s marked a crucial moment in the history of Latin American literature. He argues that Machado\u2019s vanguard narrative reflects the Brazilian owner class and its peculiar status in both national and international contexts, and shows why this novel\u2019s success was no accident. The author was able to confront some of the most prestigious ideologies of the nineteenth century with some uncomfortable truths, not the least of which was that slavery remained the basis of the Brazilian economy.<\/p>\n

A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism<\/em> will appeal to those with interests in Latin American literature, nineteenth century history, and Marxist literary theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n