This paper intends to evaluate: a) the importance of Antonio Candido for the Brazilian Social Sciences; b) the relationship between Sociology and literary review on the author's work. In this sense, the book Os Parceiros do Rio Bonito (the author's thesis submitted in 1954 at the University of São Paulo, and published in 1964) is affiliated to the Brazilian essayism and considered to be similar to Formação da Literatura Brasileira. The article also wonders whether Os Parceiros do Rio Bonito should be read as an anthropological monograph and/or as a larger interpretation of the Brazilian social formation. The hypothesis of the article assures that the book answers in a different way the same concerns that oriented Formação da Literatura Brasileira, pointing to an internal unity that can be found in Antonio Candido's diverse intellectual production, which binds it to the typical problems of the Brazilian essayistic tradition.
Brazilian Thought; Sociology; Literary Review; Brazilian Society; Paulista Yokel