I conceive of writing as a practice, consequently, I seek to examine the gestures in Raymundo’s writing from an ethnographic perspective, looking for motivations and meanings that presided over the course of his writing. The purpose of this article is to shed some light on the construction process of this archive, describing and analysing the author’s daily writing.
While studying law in Porto Alegre, he wrote 20 volumes of diaries between 19, a total of almost 6.800 manuscript pages of wholly original content. Raymundo Faoro (1925-2003), a Brazilian jurist, historian, and writer, is considered one of the most prominent social interpreters in twentieth century Brazil.