If you take one thing away from exploring his work, let it be this:
To search for is to abandon the traditional map of Latin American letters. He is not a household name like Borges or Paz, yet his shadow looms larger than almost any living critic in the Ibero-American sphere. An essayist, a professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Brazil, and a former director of the prestigious Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), Antelo is the preeminent theorist of the estridentista movement, the avant-garde, and the poetics of the object. raul antelo