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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 April 2024
The remarks which follow arise from the daily and simultaneous consulting of two literatures and, in a larger sense, of two cultures, Portuguese and Brazilian, both expressed in the same language, Portuguese. They also arise from an attempt to describe and define by categories which are “internal” to literature the differences which exist between the two bodies of writing under discussion. But they are equally inspired by a desire to isolate in the corpus of the texts which conventionally constitute a national literature those thematic and stylistic recurrences which may serve as starting points for an attempt at formalization.
1 The present article is the revised text of a lesson presented at the Center for Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, University of Paris, Sorbonne (Paris III and Paris IV), November 7, 1972. I wish to thank my colleagues and friends Raymond Cantel and Paul Teyssier for the opportunity they offered me to be in contact with and exchange ideas with colleagues at the University of Paris.