A Literatura de Clarice Lispector para Criança: Um Convite á Infância

Abstract

The Children's Literature, which is known nowadays, is a result of a long process of changes, adaptations, creations, innovations, advances and even withdrawal which involved several narratives and which defined for a long time the texts that were selected and dedicated to children. In such processes, the imaginary has always been present, even though the western society would give more importance to reason, which influenced the literary productions for kids. We aim with this work to bring to reflexion, based on historical contextualization of literature for kids, the work that Clarice Lispector dedicated to children, associating her writings to the imaginary of Gaston Bachelard, the idea of day-dreaming and poetic image which is materialized through the literary language. Analyzing the Lispector's books for kids, with emphasis on O mistério do coelho pensante and Quase de verdade, highlighting the aesthetic and imaginary elements which form the claricean narrative and which contribute with a new writing style of the short story for kids, in Brazil after Monteiro Lobato. We have tried to present Lispector's language as an instrument of reflexion and desautomatization of the language, the perceptions of the reader, and as a symbol of infanthood which is constantly amazed with life, finding, this way, a literature for kids which does not work as an ideological disseminating, disciplinarian, moralist or inhibiting of the child, but a literature which expresses, through poetical images, of an infanthood which goes beyond a true fact or a lie