Alfredo Bosi

Alfredo Bosi (26 August 1936 – 7 April 2021) was a Brazilian historian, literary critic, and professor. He was a member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Academy of Letters), occupying Chair number 12. One of his most famous books is História Concisa da Literatura Brasileira (Brief History of Brazilian Literature), widely used in Brazilian universities in literature courses. Bosi also wrote several studies about Italian literature and about major Brazilian writers, as well as essays on the field of hermeneutics.

Life Alfredo Bosi was born in São Paulo on 26 August 1936. He was married to psychologist Ecléa Bosi, with whom he had two children.

Selected bibliography Itinerario della Narrativa Pirandelliana (1964) (Doctoral Thesis) O Pré-Modernismo (1966) (Brazilian Pre-Modernism) O Ser e o Tempo da Poesia (1977) (The Time and the Being of Poetry) Céu, Inferno. Ensaios de Crítica Literária e Ideológica (1988) (Heaven, Hell. Essays of Literary and Ideological Criticism) Dialética da Colonização (1992) (Dialectics of Colonization) Machado de Assis. O Enigma do Olhar (1999) (Machado de Assis. The Puzzle of the Eye) Literatura e Resistência (2002) (Literature and Resistance)