Book, Roots of Brazil[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. It will never be too much to reaffirm that Raízes do Brasil is one of the true founding works of modern Brazilian historiography and social sciences. Both in the method of analysis and in the style of writing, both in his sensitivity to the choice of themes and in the erudition exposed in a concise way, he reveals himself to be a cultural historian and critical essayist with the evident talents of a great writer. The secular inability to separate public and private life, among other themes in this work, helps to understand much of its current interest. And new generations of historians continue to find in it an inspiring source of inexhaustible vitality. All these qualities combined made this book, rightly, in the words of Antonio Candido, "a classic by birth".