From underdevelopment to interdependency: two ends of a knot

Abstract

A return to reflection on the relationship between the local and the global as based on the positions explicitly or implicitly defended in the writings of Antonio Candido and Paulo Emílio Salles Gomes, with a view toward overcoming a simple "center-periphery" opposition through recognition of interdependency, albeit without glossing over the weight of underdevelopment and the peripheral condition of a country like Brazil and its significance in terms of production and the diffusion of marketable goods, the arts and literature included.