A casa está cheia : coisas e animais na casa brasileira na obra de Gilberto Freyre

Abstract

In the view of the writer, intellectual and social scientist Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987) the house it is always full: of people, animals, things, of visible and invisible bodies. Everything was multiplied by meanings, by layers of feeling, values, and even mystical correspondence between things. We present in this paper part of the layers of reality that Freyre tried to interpret around the house, constituting a particular investigation matrix. Our focus is on the symbolic and fantastic that surrounds the house, based on its tangible support, the things and the animals. The world that Gilberto Freyre sees is full of people, animals, things and evocations, where the present is crossed by the past, real or imaginary, in a dense and tangled web. The Freyrean interpretative method ends up being a sociological modality of the doctrine of correspondences, where a kind of portolan of the imaginary can be outlined, with still fruitful application.