A arte perdida de amarrar raminhos de flores

Abstract

By common sense and contemporary costum Childhood and Death should be separated from each other, for the preservation of the child, so that your eyes are diverted from suffering. Therefore, children should be spared any violence or sadness, as disease and death. In these two kinds of episode usually another figure emerges: the doctor’s. In “Josefina” tale of Cecília Meireles, the meeting and the funeral of the eponymous character are counted from the point of view of his little friend. Along the narrative of the pain of loss felt by the child narrator, the absence of a physician and an appropriate treatment are keynotes of the story.