O exercício da crítica: «minha prosa mais áspera»

Abstract

The importance of the plural work of Jorge de Sena (1919-1978) in the field of Portuguese literary criticism. His intense work of critique dedicated to Portuguese-Brazilian cultural, political and literary relations, based on the life experience in the two countries connected by the same language. The concept of culture defined by a threefold requirement: methodical doubt, analytical judgment, synthetic vision along with a method of analysis that consisted of a penetrating interpretive dialectics.