A infância em (des)encontro: Manoel de Barros e Arnaldo Antunes

Abstract

Childhood and its multiple derivatives fascinates not only those who experience it or, in some way, live more directly with it, but also reach largely all those who remain, in their way, in this state of enchantment. Beginning from the affective look to theory, our proposal is supported by scholars of Childhood (Ariès) and Children's Literature (Zilberman); contemporary thinkers, such as Baudrillard, Bauman and Lipovetsky; theorists of the Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature: Jauss, Aguiar e Silva, Carvalhal, and others. The aim is to observe the latent childhood in the works of Arnaldo Antunes (O Pequeno Cidadão [2009]) and Manoel de Barros (Compêndios para uso dos Pássaros [1960] and O Guardador de Águas [1989]), with the objective to find points of proximity and zones of retraction between the children described by the authors and the proximity of techniques of textual creation in the composition of a puerile atmosphere crossed by a political vision of childhood. Therewith our work contributes to the studies of Comparative Literature and about the Childhood.