ABSTRACT
It is not ordinaryanywhere that two literary critics emergea mong t he best e x pla i ner s of a nat ionfor nearly a centur y. Star ting from t heschwarzian analysis of Antonio Candido’scritical method, the essay explores the affinityand differentiation relations of both criticsconfronted at two turning points: modernismand the legacy of 1930, and developmentalism(and its failure) since the coup d’état of 1964.
KEYWORDS
Roberto Schwarz; Antonio Candido; Brazil’s explainers