Third World Literary Fortunes : Brazilian Culture and Its International Reception

This study focuses on the inverse symmetry between the national and international receptions of two Brazilian writers, Joao Guimaras Rosa and Jorge Amado.

The Rosa case compounds that of other great writers, including Machado de Assis, Mario de Andrade and Carlos Drummond; Amado's is a singular exception.

The study also examines how differences in the evolution of Brazilian and Spanish American literature are related to the virtual absence of the former from the mid-century boom of Latin American narrative.