Review Essay: Criticism at the Edges - On Luiz Costa Lima. Frestas: a teorização de um país periférico. (original) (raw)

This review essay examines Luiz Costa Lima's latest work, "Frestas: a teorização de um país periférico," which critiques contemporary Brazilian literary criticism and explores the intersections of personal narrative and theoretical discourse. The analysis highlights Costa Lima's approach to criticism as a way of engaging with the fluidity and complexity of literary production in Brazil, advocating for a more theoretical perspective that embraces the historical and cultural particularities of texts produced in contexts perceived as peripheral.