When one thinks about movements in the Brazilian literary field, it is customary to mention the emergence of new agents that, at best, will share the public sphere of creation and the debate surrounding the works. However, this idea of inclusion hides the more pungent dispute about this central space, which obviously does not include the diversity indiscriminately. New agents assume the replacement of old agents, or traditional modes of literary production. Thus, we identify in the literary autobiography of Cristovão Tezza, O espírito da prosa, an example of a reaction of the center against movements that, in one way or another, misrepresent a certain concept of literary practice defended there, and that have their key in the praise of the "subject-writer", as Tezza puts it.
spirit of prose; subject-writer; Cristovão Tezza