Two critics, one week, one century

Abstract

It is not ordinary anywhere that two literary critics emerge among the best explainers of a nation for nearly a century. Starting from the schwarzian analysis of Antonio Candido’s critical method, the essay explores the affinity and differentiation relations of both critics confronted at two turning points: modernism and the legacy of 1930, and developmentalism (and its failure) since the coup d'état of 1964.