Contos machadianos na formação do leitor literário no ensino fundamental: da leitura à autoria

Abstract

This research investigates the literary reader's formation in Elementary School.For that, a didactic sequence was proposed involving stories by Machado de Assis in two classes of 9th grade of Elementary School, in the years 2016 and 2017, in a public school in the city of Barra Mansa, RJ. This didactic sequence included the reading of varied Machado tales, a study of the structure of the tale genre and, in the end, reading and rewriting of the Machado story "The case of the stick". The students should modify the narrative focus from narrator-omniscient to narrator-character, from the point of view of Lucrecia, a slave who barely speaks in the text. The fundamental idea of this work is based on the thought of Antonio Candido, who understands access to literature as a right of all. Furthermore, it reflects on literary formation as a continuous, subjective process that takes place when the student is exposed to varied literary experiences throughout his or her school career. In order to illuminate this reflection theoretically, texts were discussed by Michèle Petit, Cecilia Bajour, Jorge Larrosa, Rildo Cosson, Teresa Colomer, Paul Zumthor, Tzvetan Todorov, among others