Becoming a critic: the early years in the work of Antonio Candido

Authors

  • Rebeca Errázuriz Cruz Universidad Adolfo Ibañez

Abstract

The following article pretends to describe the first years of the work by Brazilian critic Antonio Candido between 1941 and 1945. The purpose is to identify the main features of what he calls his “functional critique” and to understand the theoretical and methodological difficulties that will led him to abandon this kind of critique.

Keywords:

Antonio Candido, literary criticism, Brazilian literature, Sociology of literature, Intellectual History