Bøker av Silviano Santiago

Encontros (Meetings) is the largest and most prestigious book collection of interviews with Brazilian artists and thinkers. With more than 50 published titles, Encontros provides a broad panorama of Brazil's cultural and intellectual wealth. Professor, critic, and essayist, Silviano Santiago is one of the most esteemed, productive, and brilliant names in Brazilian literature. This volume of the Coleção Encontros - which brings together the best interviews of this restless writer - allows us to learn how he confronts the great contemporary issues in both his theoretical and fictional work.

Cadernos Ultramares seeks to present Brazilian culture and thought in a qualified way, through volumes bringing together important essays by renowned authors in different areas of knowledge. This volume brings together two of Silviano Santiago's major essays. "O entre-lugar do discurso latino-americano" makes a blunt and original analysis of Latin American literature and thought in dialogue with the philosophical perspective of Derrida and Foucault. "Poder e alegria" brings an accurate reflection on Brazilian literature after the military coup of 1964.