Lindolfo Collor: múltiplas narrativas

Abstract

The figure of Lindolfo Collor, first Brazilian Minister of Labour, was interpreted at different times by various intellectuals, academics or not. These different interpretations have generated significant amount of biographical narrations. This study is an analysis of some of these narrations in the light of theoretical which thought possible links between biographical genre, images and memory / imaginary, such as François Dosse, Paul Ricoeur, Sabina Loriga, Jacques Le Goff, Peter Burke, etc. Be prioritizing the written text, or also using pictures regarding Lindolfo Collor such reports contributed to the construction and/or cristalization of a type of image and memory of this historical personality who - despite being divided into different perspectives to throughout the chapters - follows a thread. These reports highlight, among other things, the humble origins of the biography, valuing their experience in journalism, the position of Minister of Labour, and the subsequent political fallout with Getúlio Vargas, ostracism and persecutions. This construction of an imaginary space on Lindolfo Collor found mainly in São Leopoldo (Rio Grande do Sul), which, to this day, there is the appreciation of German immigrant in political history, economic and social council. In larger part, arise reports Lindolfo Collor, especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s, coinciding with the beginning of the presidential campaign of Fernando Collor de Mello - grandson of the biography - and the subsequent arrival of the same for President the Republic. In the 1990 also comes in a report on celebratory tone Lindolfo Collor who excelled - far more than previous ones - by a concatenation of texts and "imagistic texts": photographies, caricatures and cartoons, which largely allowed also the construction and maintenance of a visual image about biographed person, with emphasis on the period in which it was the first Minister of Labour of Brazil (1930-1932).