LITERATURE IN THE ARMCHAIR

In LITERATURE IN THE ARMCHAIR, the reader is a privileged spectator of Castello's memories, scenes, and live interviews. In the chapter that lends its title to the work, the author weaves an exceptional analysis of the act of reading a text. He carefully desacralizes the relationship between intention and work, a recurring theme in academic criticism that shaped passions and beliefs in the 20th century, and which is reflected in the chapter dissecting Graciliano's Angústia. Otherness, the understanding of the other, and the literary are all present in the essay on Pessoa. From this analysis, the reader delves into the soul of writing and its boundaries, with a range of references from Capote to João Antônio and Piglia and from Kafka to Borges. Along with the chapter on literary workshops, this is a must-read for young writers and is also essential for communications students. The book concludes with Castello's five greatest Brazilian poets of the 20th century: Drummond, Cabral, Bandeira, Vinicius, and Cecília Meireles.