Morse in his chapter, 'The multiverse of Latin American identity c.1920 - c. "His boosters call Freyre's oeuvre an histoire-fleuve liken him to Tolstoy, Balzac and Joyce call him a poet and hail him as a founder of meta-literature", is the acid account of Richard M. Since then his reputation, as sui generis essayist on Brazil, in particular a source of insights on Brazilian patriarchy exemplified in two famous later books, Sobrados e Mocambos (The Mansions and the Shanties, 1936) and Ordem e Progresso (Order and Progress, 1959), has revived, though it still polarises. Freyre's Casa Grande e Senzala (The Masters and the Slaves, 1933) was seen as radical - Antonio Candido, remembering his teenage generation of the 1930s, spoke of "the revolutionary force, the liberating shock" of Freyre's book its readings of the colonial period and of an originary Brazilian racial culture were subsequently demolished in the 1960s. It contains chapters such as 'Why I'm a writer without ceasing to be somewhat sociological'. The inherent contradictions are projected in the title of his autobiography, Como e porque sou e nāo sou sociólogo (How and why I am and am not a sociologist, 1968).
Very General Remarks on Freyre: Having studied anthropology in the US (where he was mentored by Franz Boas), he returned to Brazil in 1923, becoming a sociological expositor of modernism - writer of anthropological-historical treatises full of asides, the printed tracks of Brazilian personhood, and a panoply of jarring writing styles, he also produced novels and polemics. Historian, novelist, anthropologist, collage-poet, he was also a football theorist who argued for a Brazilian way of playing football (Dionysian) in comparison to the European style (Apollonian), though in the last World Cup I believe that I detected a third, Achillean style, as practised by the English player Wayne Rooney (who gave rise to headlines such as 'Heal or no heal?' despite it being a meta-tarsal which was not immortally irrefrangible.) Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987) is a celebrated figure in Brazil, probably the only academic whose work is regularly the subject of samba school parades in Rio. Gilberto Freyre in his favourite sitting position
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