Readers and readings of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's work in the 1940s and 1950s

Abstract

It is intended to analyze the readings that were proposed on the work of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda produced during the years 1940 and 1950, by means of the detailed study of the reviews and the elaborated comments about his books. As we shall see below, although there is certainly not all the news that has been published, the following editions of Roots of Brazil (in 1948, the second, and in 1956, the third), or the first of: Snake Glass (1944) , Roads and Frontiers (1957) and Vision of Paradise (1958, 1959), did not manage to generate such a representative and diverse number of comments and criticisms, as in the case of his debut book . Even more so if we consider that in the 1950s, SBH was at the height of his professional career, as director of the Paulista Museum, and later, as chair of the History of Brazilian Civilization chair of the course of Geography and History of the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters from the University of São Paulo (FFFCL / USP), from 1958.