Apresentação - Leitores de Antonio Candido

Abstract

The work of Antonio Candido represented, broadly, an interpretation of Brazilian culture in the form of a homemade discourse, in the familiar tone, full of humor, in a conversational style. The clear language of his criticism gave to Brazil a map, a ruler and a compass. A striking coherence, supported by a longevity of more than seventy years, covered his intellectual and political intervention, based on complex aspects that the author translated into common sense, such as the truism of the relationship between literature, as a text, as an aesthetic product, and reality as the context of the historical world that the literary form shapes. The essays gathered in this collection are intended to demonstrate the modest learning of the third generation of Candido’s disciples as an attempt to keep alive, in the desolate landscape of dark times,  the flame of humanism and kindness that we inherited from our dearest master