Editorial

Being Classical in Brasil: Literary Appropriations in Modernism and Post

18 february, 2022≈ 2 min read

Authors

Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa, Júlia Batista Castilho de Avellar, Rafael Guimarães Tavares da Silva

Synopsis

This book is a display of how Brazilian Literature received Classical Tradition in some of its most renowned works. We intend to reflect about the ways in which Brazilian authors re-read and re-wrote Classical culture in a significant way to their own cultural context. Avoiding the traps of ethnocentric comparative interpretations, we suggest that the survival of Classical texts in Brazilian Literature rests in a dialogue between reiterating identity and inaugurating fundamental differences. Therefore, this book’s aim is to display some significant examples of the richness of Brazilian literature: works which are innovative in their use of Classical elements to create their own universe. It is our wish to point at the potentialities of works that are still unknown, or not much studied, worldwide, in order to offer our audience the possibility of getting in contact with some of the most important and influential authors within Brazilian literature, while offering comments and insights on the main themes in their works and on how they explore the Classics in their own creations. In this sense, this volume also investigates how diverse the Brazilian reception of the classics can be from the European one.