Remembering Antonio Candido

In the 2018 MLA Convention, the Luso-Brazilian Forum organized a meeting to remember Professor Antonio Candido (1918-2017), on January 6, 7:15-8:30 PM. This posting collects most papers read at the meeting. Should you be interested in contributing your own remembrance, or reflections on Candido’s career, please send them to me on the Commons. I’ll just ask you to use a format similar to the one we have used, an send me text that is between 2 and 3 pages double-spaced. Luiza Moreira, Binghamton Universit

Musings on Mortality: Tolstoy to Primo Levi

(from the publishers site) Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Albert Camus, Giorgio Bassani, J. M. Coetzee, and Primo Levi—these are the writers whose works Brombert plumbs, illuminating their views on the meaning of life and the human condition. But there is more to their work, he shows, than a pervasive interest in mortality: they wrote not only of physical death but also of the threat of moral and spiritual death—and as the twentieth century progressed, they increasingly reflected on the traumatic events of their times and the growing sense of a collective historical tragedy. He probes the individual struggle with death, for example, through Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilych and Mann’s Aschenbach, while he explores the destruction of whole civilizations in Bassani, Camus, and Primo Levi. For Kafka and Woolf, writing seems to hold the promise of salvation, though that promise is seen as ambiguous and even deceptive, while Coetzee, writing about violence and apartheid South Africa, is deeply concerned with a sense of disgrace. Throughout the book, Brombert roots these writers’ reflections in philosophical meditations on mortality. Ultimately, he reveals that by understanding how these authors wrote about mortality, we can grasp the full scope of their literary achievement and vision. Drawing deeply from the well of Brombert’s own experience, Musings on Mortality is more than mere literary criticism: it is a moving and elegant book for all to learn and live by.https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/rpw_bkaw/1002/thumbnail.jp

Henry Brulard : ironie et continuité

Dans Vie de Henry Brulard, parlant des ennemis qu’il avait le talent de se faire, Stendhal mentionne son ami di Fiori – celui-là même qu’il s’était proposé de prendre à témoin de son caractère (car l’œil ne peut « se voir soi-même »). Or di Fiori, à en croire Stendhal, lui reproche « l’ironie cachée, ou plutôt mal cachée et apparente malgré [lui], dans le coin droit de la bouche » (p. 71-72). On songe aux différents portraits de Henri Beyle (ceux de Soedermark et Silvestro Valeri, le crayon d..

Hugo, l'édifice du Livre

Brombert Victor. Hugo, l'édifice du Livre. In: Romantisme, 1984, n°44. Le livre et ses mythes. pp. 49-56

Lieu de l'idylle et lieu du bouleversement dans "L' Éducation sentimentale"

Brombert Victor. Lieu de l'idylle et lieu du bouleversement dans "L' Éducation sentimentale". In: Cahiers de l'Association internationale des études francaises, 1971, n°23. pp. 277-284

Sartre et la biographie impossible

Brombert Victor. Sartre et la biographie impossible. In: Cahiers de l'Association internationale des études francaises, 1967, n°19. pp. 155-166

Lyrisme et dépersonnalisation : l'exemple de Baudelaire

Brombert Victor. Lyrisme et dépersonnalisation : l'exemple de Baudelaire. In: Romantisme, 1973, n°6. Figures du lyrisme. pp. 29-37

Sentiment et violence chez Victor Hugo : L'exemple de "Quatre-vingt-treize"

Brombert Victor. Sentiment et violence chez Victor Hugo : L'exemple de "Quatre-vingt-treize". In: Cahiers de l'Association internationale des études francaises, 1974, n°26. pp. 251-267