Profiles

Abstract

Here and there, all over Antonio Candido’s work, we find many profiles of people: people he knew, or even people he did not know at all. This fine art of the portraiture celebrates not only influential intellectuals in the sphere of culture and thought, but also to political activists and to obscure people whose traces are dim. The interplay among memory, remembrance and exemplarity, though a discreet one, brings up many relevant questions.