O arquivo Altino Corsino da Silva Flores: fragmentos da história de um intelectual de Santa Catarina no século XX

Abstract

This work examines and problematizes the personal archive of Altino Corsino da Silva Flores. Born in the city of São José in 1892, Altino Flores lived as a man of many facets throughout his 91 years, being considered one of the most important intellectuals in Santa Catarina in the 20th century. His extensive career includes roles in education and politics, in addition to being an important member of the Academia Catarinense de Letras and dean of the state's journalists. Commonly portrayed as a controversial figure, he also occupied the (un)grateful position of literary critic of his generation, armed only with his pen and his words. Consequently, he was always surrounded by many documents, personal and institutional, letters, newspapers, etc. Thus, endowed with a perfectionist spirit, he sought to identify and organize these and other documents in his private collection, archiving himself in the process. When he passed away in 1983, these materials became a family heirloom, passed down from generation to generation and between the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the intellectual from Santa Catarina. Currently belonging to Fernando Chíquio Boppré, the collection can be understood as a repository of its creator's memories, an attempt to preserve a self-image for himself. The present research therefore intends to provide a brief description of this file while seeking to identify traces of ego-documents where the author is revealed either deliberately or inadvertently. The careful father, the tenacious critic, the dedicated academic and the public man are some of the personas that are present and help to shape this material. Thus, a reflection will also be made on Altino Flores as an intellectual and representative of the Geração da Academia, questioning the notions of emptiness, stagnation and backwardness imposed by the modernists of Grupo Sul from 1947 onwards.