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Abstract

In this article we discuss Sérgio Buarque de Holanda’s human and academic formation. We observe that the contact with the literary criticism and the modernism marked the young historian in many ways as it show the acute and critical choice by easy but deep, in which all his erudition appears to be gradually improved with years of experience. It is at moment that, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, really became a writer and later became a historian (indeed, he never ceased to be both). The main idea of this paper is to reveal the genesis of the independent intellectual that Sérgio Buarque de Holanda was, present since the begining of his writings, but above all, present in his speeches and actions. The delimitation of the theme is from the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s and 50’s of the twentieth century. We believe that this period corresponds to the years when Sergio began his professional life, served as literary critic and choose to be a historian.