CRISTINA ANTUNES

EXTRAORDINARY READER AND GUARDIAN OF BOOKS

Abstract

From a house at Princesa Isabel Street to the impressive building at  USP, Cristina Antunes (1951-2019) is a protagonist who follows the formation and development of a library which is constituted by many collections, from different periods of time. In this text, she is invited to remember its trajectory, in which condenses and mixes the reflection over the act of reading and the interaction of researchers and collectors with the experience of someone who have always been close to the manuscript, printed version and the libraries. A talk, based on two interviews, is also a tribute to the “cordéis” collector, paleographer, translator, library specialist, book organizer, writer, researcher and above everything, reader.