ABSTRACT
This text analyses Antonio Candido's 1969 preface to Raízes do Brasil (Roots of Brazil, 1936) assessing its underlying layers of temporality; especially regarding the previous dialogues between Antonio Candido, author of the referred preface, and Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, author of the book. By doing so, it seeks to present a sketch of a collective or "entangled" biography: taking in consideration the mutual appropriation and a certain complicity present as key concepts on theirs texts, such as Monções (1945), Caminhos e fronteiras (1957), Capítulos de literatura colonial (1991), Formação da literatura brasileira (1959) and Parceiros do Rio Bonito (1964). In summary, both Candido and Holanda's analysis converge to a representation of the intellectual craft as a form of political engagement facing two dictatorships (Estado Novo, 1937-1945, and Military Dictatorship, 1964-1985), and the aspirations for democracy during and after each authoritarian regime.
Keywords:
Sérgio Buarque de Holanda; Antonio Candido; collective biography; entangled History; memory