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Beyond the preface: dictatorship and democracy in Antonio Candido and Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's dialogue

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

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