Câmara Cascudo, modern
discoverer
| Câmara
Cascudo is an indefatigable searcher of Brazil. He made many of his own
personal discoveries, and even more were made possible by his work. The
gigantic proportions of his production and the range of different
intellectual fields in which he worked, as folklorist, historian,
ethnographer, fictionist, columnist, professor, essayist, or as author of
memoirs, make him a prolific and versatile writer and multifaceted
intellectual.
Without ever leaving his home city of Natal, an incurable provincial as he liked to call himself, Luís da Câmara Cascudo navigated many seas and as much as he is a plural and controversial figure, so the more interesting is he a modern discoverer of Brazil. |
