Encontros (Meetings) is the largest and most prestigious book collection of interviews with Brazilian artists and thinkers. With more than 50 published titles, Encontros provides a broad panorama of Brazil's cultural and intellectual wealth. Professor, critic, and essayist, Silviano Santiago is one of the most esteemed, productive, and brilliant names in Brazilian literature. This volume of the Coleção Encontros - which brings together the best interviews of this restless writer - allows us to learn how he confronts the great contemporary issues in both his theoretical and fictional work.