ABSTRACT
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (1902-1982) and Antonio Candido (1918-2017) both shared an interest in literary formation and the meanings of modernism. However, their respective overviews of national literature show slightly different approaches. Candido proposes a sentimental literary historiography, based on the transition from classical perspectives to a local sensibility, while Sérgio Buarque organizes his literary historiography through topics that form an analytical axis of his erudite overview. Nevertheless, in both cases, the authors articulate their literary historiography as an effort to overcome a sense of exile caused by either Iberian roots or common literature. The shared desire to describe and engender the process of overcome feelings of exile allowed them to perceive different ways of understanding baroque expression, and therefore suggest different narrative rhythms (oscillating between slow and fast) of national literary formation.
Keywords:
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda; Antonio Candido; literary historiograph; Baroque; friendship