Antonio Candido: a dialética entre o local e o universal

Abstract

The article proposes to outline Antonio Candido’s conception of literature by reading the dialectic between local and universal in his works. Initially, the text retraces the critic’s intellectual trajectory and focus on some more prolific aspects in his project, from the point of view of method and its grounds. Subsequently, it analyzes the procedures that support his judgment about Guimarães Rosa’s romance