Leitura em foco: olhares sobre os caminhos do leitor literário

Abstract

In this article we aim to discuss aspects related to the scenario in which the reader and reading are inserted and raise some questions that configure views on how these two categories underlie the formation of the literary reader. To achieve this purpose, we conducted a literature review, seeking to explain and understand some cultural-historical movements that dealt with research on reading and the reader from the view and postulates of Cultural History and Literature Theory, as well as conducted documentary investigation in the research Retratos da Leitura no Brasil (2019-2020), comparing it with postulates what the new Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) recommends about the forms of contact with reading and the idea developed by Antonio Candido (1995) of literature as an inalienable right. Thus, we conclude that the strategies that make up the formation of the reader go beyond numbers and that literature and art in general function as artifacts in defense of citizenship.