A biblioteca vermelha de Raimundo Jinkings: uma história de livros

Abstract

The history of books and readers in Brazil has been object of several researches in brazilian universities, guided for interests in writing and reading practices from the colony times to contemporary era. This study is about a private library, the Raimundo Jinking’s collection, and its meaning for a historical time, as well as for a man and his family, offering a remarkable view into a communist leader’s intellectual formation through his extensive lectures. It also demonstrates the importance of books as a path for political activism and ideological construction by providing a journalistical production and, last but not least, preserving in vivid ways the ideas and memory of the collector.