This article is concerned with the experiences of a "candango" in Brasília, using as analysis his own narrative. Eronildes Guerra de Queiroz, born in Pernambuco, arrived in the Planalto Central in the fifties looking for best living conditions, as well as many other people who saw this opportunity in the new capital's construction. In 1991, he reports his own trajectory to the researchers of the Public Archive of the Distrito Federal. To think about the subject of this narrative means to solve it while expression of social practices that were common on that space and also recognizes it like individualized experience on its own way to perceive and to tell the events.
Brasília; memory; oral history