Situação e presença de um crítico austríaco-brasileiro

Abstract

The article intends to present Carpeaux’s life and works, emphasizing his role as literary critic established in Brazil by retrieving two fundamental essays of his career, written at different moments: “Situação e presença: algumas reflexões sobre a crítica literária” (1941) and “Dialética da literatura brasileira” (1967). The study emphasizes the notion of presence, associated to the essayistic nature of his writing, the composition of a moveable critical locus between the European background and the analytic fruition of Brazilian literature, and the fluid coexistence of politics and literature in his writings.