A representação da escola em duas obras da literatura brasileira e o gosto pela leitura literária: reflexões sobre um desencontro

Abstract

The present work is a with the mismatch between school education in the imperial period of brazilianilian history, as presented in the O Ateneu, by Raul Pompéia, and students’ taste for literary reading, reflecting on this disagreement, as well as on its presence in a work produced in the modern period of our literature, Infância, by Graciliano Ramos. Therefore, the presence of literature was investigated in the educational programs of the schools, created by D. João VI, in addition to Colégio Pedro II, where the discipline had a certain prestige, identifying the role played by literature, creating a national identity with the creation of symbols, or as a filler in the void given the limited availability of higher education courses in Brazil. Bibliographic research was used as a methodology, with the survey of books, magazines and scientific articles, monographs and other scientific materials that dealt with the theme, it was carried out from the search in the main indexes and bibliographic bases, such as: Scielo, Redalyc, Academic Google, among others. From the analysis of the works of some important authors of the XIX and XX centuries, it was possible to identify the reality of the educational system at the time. We found that, in works by renowned authors of national literature such as Raul Pompeia and Graciliano Ramos, there were reports and mainly criticisms about the teaching methods of the Brazilian educational system and the way of using the Portuguese language.