{"product_id":"to-the-victor-the-potatoes-9781642593440","title":"To the Victor, the Potatoes!","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary forms travel from core countries to the periphery of capitalism, where they are adopted under social conditions that differ from those in the countries of their origin.\u003c\/strong\u003e Besides being inevitable, the resulting maladjustments lead to new and original aesthetic problems, presenting to the reader the symptoms of the world's complexity. When properly worked through, these allow for the rise of world-class art, as in the case of the great Brazilian novels by Machado de Assis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in Portuguese in 1977 as \u003cem\u003eAo vencedor as batatas: Forma literaria e processo social nos iniacios do romance brasileiro\u003c\/em\u003e and presented here in a new English-language translation, \u003cem\u003eTo the Victor, the Potatoes!\u003c\/em\u003e is a major work of one of the most significant Marxist literary critics of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading the Truth of Falseness: An Introduction\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eABBC Interview with Roberto Schwarz, on the Subject of Machado de Assis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Misplaced Ideas\u003cbr\u003e2 The Importation of the Novel and Its Contradictions in Alencar\u003cbr\u003e3 Paternalism and Its Rationalisation in Machado de Assis' Early Novels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359875891543,"sku":"9781642593440","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781642593440.jpg?v=1754125980","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/to-the-victor-the-potatoes-9781642593440","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}