História do Brasil pelas biografias de pessoas e grupos
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Durante gera��es, fomos treinados em salas de aula para memorizar o passado nacional como quem decora a bula de um rem�dio amargo. A Hist�ria nos foi apresentada como um desfile ass�ptico de datas comemorativas, tratados com nomes pomposos, leis �ridas e figuras inquestion�veis que pareciam j� ter nascido com a voca��o para nomear avenidas. Aprendemos que em 1500 o Brasil foi "descoberto" em um ato de bravura n�utica; que em 1822 a Independ�ncia foi o eco de um grito retumbante de um pr�ncipe garboso; que em 1888 uma princesa bondosa assinou a liberdade dos escravizados com uma pena de ouro; e que, um ano depois, a Rep�blica raiou num amanhecer c�vico e inevit�vel.
Tudo muito limpo, tudo muito ordenado. Uma narrativa em tons past�is. Uma formid�vel decoreba.
O problema dessa vers�o oficial - constru�da meticulosamente ao longo dos s�culos XIX e XX por institui��es imperiais e republicanas para forjar uma identidade nacional coesa - n�o � apenas o fato de ser parcial. O verdadeiro problema � que ela � de um t�dio atroz. Ela retira da narrativa o seu ingrediente mais fundamental, ca�tico e fascinante: a natureza humana.
A Hist�ria n�o � uma sucess�o de destinos inelut�veis. Ela n�o � feita por semideuses infal�veis ou por for�as abstratas pairando sobre o mapa da Am�rica do Sul. A Hist�ria �, e sempre foi, forjada na conting�ncia do acaso, na urg�ncia das paix�es, nas dores de est�mago, na ambi��o desmedida, no medo, na crueldade e, por vezes, na mais pura genialidade. A Hist�ria � atrito. E � exatamente esse atrito que este livro se prop�e a resgatar.
Hist�ria do Brasil pelas biografias de pessoas e grupos nasce da premissa de que a melhor maneira - talvez a �nica verdadeiramente honesta - de compreender a forma��o de um pa�s � olhar nos olhos de quem o construiu, o sofreu e o inventou. Ao deslocarmos o foco das datas e dos pap�is oficias para a carne e o osso, a poeira dos arquivos se dissipa e revela um espet�culo visceral.
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