In a few strokes
Alexandre Soares Carneiro
Alexandre Soares Carneiro is a professor at the Department of Literary Theory at the Institute of Language Studies (IEL) at Unicamp. He has experience in the area of Literature, with an emphasis on Comparative Literature. He supervised works and published studies on Gil Vicente, Michel de Montaigne, court literature from the medieval and Renaissance periods and modern essayism. Since 2022, he has maintained the column Em Few Traços in the Unicamp Journal.
Sinful words
"More than ensuring the standard norm, or erecting useless barriers against neologisms, it is about recognizing the value of vocabulary for elaborate, precise and lively communication"
Beautiful as prose
Alexandre Carneiro: "Thus, good prose is direct. Advancing decisively, it fulfills its vocation."
The report as a literary object
"The texts thus offer a coherent and engaging stylistic and moral set, all the more so because they are punctuated by scathing comments"
The art of telling the truth
"An important value of the democratic city, [parrhesia] guaranteed citizens the right to express themselves freely in courts and assemblies."
The writer as architect
"Renaissance architecture suggests good similes for us to think of our texts as artifacts for an apt and elegant reflection."
Is it possible to teach the essay?
Alexandre Carneiro: "My discovery of the essay occurred through authors who, dedicating themselves to reflection on literature, themselves produced texts with literary value"
Praise for literary education (for those who write)
Alexandre Carneiro: "Writing, we all fall. We all fight a vain fight with words; but an inevitable fight, as Drummond said"
