{"product_id":"to-the-victor-the-potatoes","title":"To the Victor, the Potatoes!: Literary Forms and Social Process in the Beginnings of the Brazilian Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eNewly available in English, a magisterial work by one of the world's most esteemed Marxist literary critics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBesides 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\n\u003cp\u003e“Roberto Schwarz's \u003cem\u003eTo the Victor, the Potatoes!\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the great works of comparative literature. It belongs on a shelf with Erich Auerbach's Mimesis, Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious, Pascale Casanova's The World Republic of Letters, Georg Lukács's \u003cem\u003eThe Historical Novel\u003c\/em\u003e, Edward Said's \u003cem\u003eOrientalism\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eNicholas Brown, \u003cem\u003eNovel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44788440563805,"sku":"‎9781642593440","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/TotheVictor_thePotatoes.jpg?v=1786565162","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/en-us\/products\/to-the-victor-the-potatoes","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}