O crítico como artista

Abstract

This text examines two writers from the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, Gonzaga Duque and Nestor Victor, both critics and fictionists. Their texts reveal problematizing thoughts, which raise questions about art, literature and criticism that are still crutial today. They employ the essay as a form of critique, which encompasses sensibility and intelect. Inquiring subjectivities articulate instances of thought into the modernism of turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro.