Humberto Nóbrega: um homem entre livros

Abstract

Rebuilding, historically and culturally, the life and works of Humberto Carneiro da Cunha Nóbrega, focuses on his personal library, highlighting the collection’s bibliographical and bibliology characteristics. From methodological and theoretical point of view, this paper bases on cultural history and social networks approach, where friends and relatives are inserted. Also, was tried to identify, from theoretical reference, the library as private/particular and it’s value at paraiban context. After that, it tries to identify and show the collection, emphasizing it’s rare documents and works from Paraiba and Brazil and how it was organized. The pre-establish interview format of data analysis, points to the collection, it’s creator and this activity peculiarity, walking through objects diversity there exposed, a sort of acquirements way. This paper also intends to presents the creator other faces as public man in his works as physician, director Professor at UFPB, furthermore his familiar activities as father, grandfather and uncle and finally, in social ambit, with friends and collaborators.