Detalls del llibre
How can Latin Americans understand their past? Do ideologies which have been imported from Europe necessarily distort their view, or is that to underrate the power and objectivity of the ideas themselves? These questions are at the heart of this selection of essays, spanning twenty years of critical work on history, culture and identity, by one of the foremost Latin American intellectuals of our time. Roberto Schwarz?s writings have had a profound effect throughout Latin America. This is the first volume of those writings to appear in English. Taking its title from what has probably been Schwarz?s most influential essay, Misplaced Ideas first examines the slave-owning Brazil of the nineteenth century, to show the persistent gap between liberal ideology based on the free market, and the reality of forced labour. The essays which follow range across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and across film and fiction, theatre and music. They include four pieces on the great novelist Machado de Assis, and a powerful essay on the sometimes bizarre ways Brazilian culture reacted to the imposition of military rule. Throughout, Schwarz continually demonstrates the wit and sharpness which make his writings both a challenge and a pleasure to read.
Llegir més - Autor/a Roberto Schwarz
- ISBN13 9780860915768
- ISBN10 086091576X
- Pàgines 224
- Any Edició 1992
- Fecha de publicación 17/09/1992
- Idioma Alemany, Francès
Ressenyes i valoracions
Misplaced Ideas: Essays on Brazilian Culture (Alemany, Francès)
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- Roberto Schwarz
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- Verso Books (1992)
- 9780860915768



