Novas considerações sobre O albatroz e o chinês

Abstract

This article highlights the importance of O albatroz e o chinês, Antonio Candido's last book, and it stresses it is part of his journey as a high-level literary critic and culture thinker. It explores the linkages between memory and analysis which characterize both the longer essays of the second part of the book − which address Portuguese literary works and the cultural presence of Portuguese intellectual figures in our country − and the shorter essays of the third part, which blend testimonials and literary and cultural analyses