Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. I Misplacing Ideas. Theoretical Frameworks
5. Questions on the Notion of “Misplaced Ideas” 13
6. Dialectic of Realism 23
7. History and Form in Adorno and Schwarz 33
8. The Double Dialectic of Schwarz’s Machado de Assis 45
9. II Shifting Borders. Literary Criticism
10. Changing Parameters 57
11. Southern Dialectics: Roberto Schwarz and the Question of Progress 69
12. Roberto Schwarz and Peter Szondi: A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism and Theory of the Modern Drama 77
13. III On the Threshold. Brazilian Scenarios
14. The Dialectics of Literary Form: Roberto Schwarz, Novel Theory, and Recent Criticism on Machado de Assis 89
15. Malandragem and Volubility 105
16. Nothingness in the Brazilian Sense of the Term – Roberto Schwarz and the Social Ground of Nihilism 123
17. Brecht after the End of History: the Contemporary Relevance of Epic Theater in Roberto Schwarz’s Rainha Lira 135
18. IV Beyond Brazil. Transnational Connections
19. Objective Form and “Revelatory Dissonance” in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: an Experimental Schwarzian Reading of Mark Twain 151
20. Literary Accumulation Otherwise, or, Reading Roberto Schwarz in South Africa 167
21. Some Misplaced Ideas About The Maias 179
22. Epilogue: A Translator’s Note
23. Exile, Homeland and Translation 191
24. About the Authors
25. Index 203