%0 Journal Article %T Literature and Difference: A Conversation with Alfredo Bosi %A Monteiro %A Pedro Meira %A Bosi %A Alfredo %J Ellipsis %D 2006 %I American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA) %X Alfredo Bosi was born in 1936 and is today one of Brazil's most important intellectuals. Professor of literature at the University of S o Paulo and member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, he is the author of Hist¨®ria Concisa da Literatura Brasileira as well as of a number of books of essays, including O Ser e o Tempo da Poesia and Dial¨¦tica da Coloniza o. The interview published in ellipsis brings together two moments in a long series of interviews conducted with Bosi in S o Paulo in August and September 2005. %K Alfredo Bosi %K Brazilian literature %K Machado de Assis %K literary criticism %U http://www.ellipsis-apsa.com/Volume_4-Monteiro_files/Monteiro-Bosi_ellipsis_4_2006%20copy.pdf