Book review Sobre a arte de guardar: reflexões a respeito do acervo de Lívio Xavier

Abstract

This review aims to highlight the contributions of the book Sobre a arte de guardar: reflexões a respeito do acervo de Lívio Xavier (About the art of saving: reflections on the collection of Lívio Xavier), which contains proposals for filling two gaps; the first, a study on the personal, intellectual and professional trajectory of Livio Xavier; the second, details about the potentialities of a writer's personal collection. Besides the initial presentation, written by the organizers of the book, Sonia Troitiño and Tania Regina de Luca, the work is also composed of two great testimonies of Antonio Candido and José Castilho Marques Neto and six chapters that mix information on archival techniques and praxis, the institutions of documentary guards and the collection of Lívio Xavier. Throughout the book, the challenges of the studies presented are highlighted. However, technical and intellectual paths are also addressed for the organization of archives with a great diversity of documents and the research promotion in several fields of knowledge.