Nas malhas da formação: três olhares sobre a noção de "sistema literário", de Antonio Candido

Abstract

The following project aims at analyzing the criticism made by Afrânio Coutinho, Haroldo de Campos and Luiz Costa e Lima on Antonio Candido s Formação da literatura brasileira momentos decisivos. As already known, the book mentioned above, as well as the notion of literary system there outlined by the critic and historian, is a milestone for literary-historical studies, shaping it into one of the most important theory of Brazilian Literature, if not the only one. More than fifty years since its publication, and comprehending its basic role in what is conventionally understood as Brazilian Literature, it is, thus, proposed through three of the most important literary critics point of view to study the process of critic reception of Candido s master piece during the second half of the 20th century, in an attempt of seizing its spot in contemporary Literary Historiography.