Education
University of São Paulo.
University of São Paulo.
He is a writer, professor, sociologist and literary critic. As a critic of Brazilian Literature, he is currently considered as one of the most eminent scholars on the subject by Brazilian universities. Antonio Candido is the only child of Aristides Candido de Mello e Souza, Doctor of Medicine, and Clarisse Tolentino de Mello e Souza.
Most of his childhood was spent in Brazilian countryside, in the cities of Cássia, Poços de Caldas and São João da Boa Vista, finally settling down in São Paulo Paulo in the year of 1937.