One Million Red Ribbons

The initial reading that we made of Sergio Buarque of Holland left of one of its classics, Roots of Brazil, that guaranteed foundation to me for, then, to desire to work with the author. Inquiring a little of its biography, we were to the meeting of a component little studied of Sergio, that is, Sergio literary Buarque of Holland as critical. A work organized for Antonio Arnoni the Prado congregates practically all the production of Sergio, for magazines and periodicals in the critical field of the literary one, between 1920, when it published its first writing, and 1959, when it locked up its literary activities to integrally dedicate its activity of historian. In previous works we subsequent to analyze the vision of our author concerning a generation heroic phase of the modernista movement of 1922, period called for some for Generation of 45. In this work we were to the one distinct point observing the gamma of readings that Sergio Buarque of Holland made to inquire a little plus a so conspicuous personage. In the first part of research we were to some biographical aspects of the author, analyzing in this way which were its influences and the reason read definitive workmanships and not others. Not obstante, also he was weighed some comments of theoretical matrix on history of the reading, that is, of that it forms an analysis of the readings of the author could be useful for then understanding its time and the proper craftsman. They had been used as theoretical support the text History of the Reading of the author Robert Darnton, the workmanship Readings and Readers in the France of the Old Regimen of Roger Chartier, the Invention of the Society of Defaulting Jaques, authors who had given theoretical sustentation to me to understand of that he forms to examine the readings of Sergio Buarque.