Antonio Candido and Ángel Rama, 1958. Addendum for an intellectual friendship

Authors

  • Hugo Herrera Pardo Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Abstract

The present work rescues a singular forgotten encounter between Ángel Rama and Antonio Candido, prior to the summer of 1960, date marked as the beginning of their friendship and intellectual relationship, both by critics and by the protagonists themselves. From there, it is proposed as a goal to carry out a trajectory until their essays agreed as central or canonical to stop in the conditions and modes of reading that were transformed along that route. Crossing that is, at the same time, a kind of synecdoche of some of the most relevant transformations of Latin American literary criticism during the second half of the last century.

Keywords:

Antonio Candido, Ángel Rama, Latin American literary criticism, reading modes