Gilberto Freyre

Encontros (Meetings) is the largest and most prestigious book collection of interviews with Brazilian artists and thinkers. With more than 50 published titles, Encontros provides a broad panorama of Brazil's cultural and intellectual wealth. Gilberto Freyre was one of the greatest Brazilian intellectuals, author of classics such as "Casa Grande & Senzala". The interviews gathered here reveal aspects of the complexity of his thought: innocent and shrewd, autobiographical and impersonal, poetic and scientific, provincial and universalist. Above all, he's a great writer, with his colloquial and intimate prose, abused and brilliant, that imposes itself in a familiar conversational rhythm without losing the thread of the great revelations.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.