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  GILBERTO DE MELLO FREYRE nasceu no Recife em 15 de março de 1900. Na capital pernambucana fez o curso primário e secundário, além de estudar francês, desenho e latim. Nos Estados Unidos tornou-se bacharel em Artes Liberais pela Universidade de Baylor e obteve grau de mestre pela Universidade de Columbia.

Realizou uma vasta obra de interpretação da cultura brasileira, muito especialmente no entendimento das relações sociais nas regiões agrárias do Brasil, nas quais o patriarcalismo rural e o paternalismo senhorial são faces determinantes da realidade.

Além do estudo da própria identidade do Brasil e do brasileiro, o conjunto de sua obra, na sua vastidão e diversidade, retrata a terra, a vida, as coisas, os animais, os fatos do cotidiano, a casa, a moda. São dele, pioneiramente, os mais sérios e aprofundados estudos sobre o Nordeste e o Trópico, interessando-lhe, sobretudo, o homem situado nesses espaços geográficos, considerando todas as circunstâncias dessa localização e avaliando as conseqüências daí decorrentes.

Embora a sua obra seja numerosíssima, é indispensável fazer referência a livros como Casa Grande & Senzala, Sobrados e Mucambos, Ordem e Progresso, Nordeste, Sociologia, Novo mundo nos trópicos, Aventura e Rotina, Além do apenas moderno, Tempo morto e outros tempos, Açúcar, entre outros.

Foi o escritor brasileiro que recebeu as maiores distinções, o maior reconhecimento de universidades e instituições brasileiras e estrangeiras. Recebeu o título de Doutor honoris causa pelas Universidades de Columbia, Baylor, Oxford, Sorbonne, Munique, Salamanca, e homenagens dos Estados Unidos, da França, da Inglaterra, de Portugal, da Espanha, entre outras. Foi distingüido com o título de “Sir” Cavaleiro do Império Britânico, pela Rainha Elizabeth II da Inglaterra; recebeu o Prêmio Internacional La Madoninna e o Prêmio Aspen pelo que há de original, excepcional e de valor permanente em sua obra. Foi eleito, por aclamação, Membro da Academia Pernambucana de Letras, ocupando a cadeira n° 23.

 SONIA MARIA FREYRE PIMENTEL Presidente FUNDAÇÃO GILBERTO FREYRE

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GILBERTO DE MELLO FREYRE was born in Recife, Brazil, on March 15, 1900. There, in the capital of Pernambuco State, he went to elementary and high school, besides studying French, Design and Latin. In the United States, he graduated in Liberal Arts by the University of Baylor and obtained his Master’s Degree by the University of Columbia.

He engaged himself in a vast work of interpretation of the Brazilian culture, particularly in the comprehension of the social relations in rural areas of Brazil, where rural patriarchalism and manorial paternalism are dominant aspects of such reality.

Besides the study of the own identity of Brazil and of the Brazilian citizen, his works, in their vastness and diversity, portrait land, life, things, animals, day-to-day facts, home, fashion. To him are owed the credits of the first and more thorough and serious study on Brazilian Northeastern Region and the Tropics, in which he focuses primarily on the man who lives in such geographical spaces, considering all circumstances of such location and evaluating the consequences that might arise from it.

In spite of his numerous works, it is impossible not to refer to books such as “The Master and the Slaves: a study in the development of the Brazilian Civilization”; “The Mansions and the Shanties: the making of modem Brazil”; “Order and Progress:

Brazil from Monarchy to Republic”; New World in the Tropics: the culture of modern Brazil”, among many others.

He was the Brazilian writer who was most acclaimed and recognized by universities and institutions in Brazil and worldwide. He received the title of Doctor honors causa from the Universities of Columbia, Baylor, Oxford, Munich, Salamanca and honors from the United States, France, Great Britain, Portugal, Spain, among others. He was given the title of Sir Knight of the British Empire, by Queen Elizabeth II. He also received the “La Madoninna” and Aspen Awards for the originality exceptionality and permanent value of his works. He was acclaimed as well a member of the Academy of Letters of Pernambuco State, Brazil, being given chair no. 23.

  SONIA MARIA FREYRE PIMENTEL President GILBERTO FREYRE FOUNDATION



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