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Misplaced Ideas: Essays on Brazilian Culture. By Roberto Schwarz. [Critical Studies in Latin American Culture.] (New York: Verso, 1992. Pp. xx, 204. Notes. Index. $59.95.)

This collection reunites essays from author's major books, Ao vencedor as batatas, (1977); O pai defamilia, (1978); Que horas sao?, (1987); and Um mestre na periferia do capitalismo: Machado de Assis (1990). Its inclusion in Verso's fine series helps fill the void of Brazilian literary and cultural criticism in English. Schwarz is one of the foremost Brazilian critics today. Following Antonio Candido and Anatol Rosenfeld's lines, he bases his cultural critique squarely on socioeconomic foundations. Having situated Brazil within universal capitalism, Schwartz follows its culture through literary development-authors, movements, and specific works. Misplaced Ideas (a quotation from Machado de Assis) represents Schwarz's wide range in literary history. He starts with the nineteenth century (Assis's predecessors, Alencar and Almeida, Romero) and continues with Modernism in the 1920s, Concrete Poetry, Post-Modernism, and 1980s fiction.