Ruptura e renovação no conto de fadas brasileiro: Emília, Clara Luz e leitor em parceria lúdica

Abstract

The present research investigates the origins of children’s literature and the changes occurred throughout its history, seeking to demonstrate a break in the modern fairy tale, from the unveiling of the relationships between the innovation observed in the book A fada que tinha ideias (1971), by Fernanda Lopes de Almeida, and the sociohistorical context wherein this narrative is included. Based on the assumptions of the reception aesthetics, and, in particular, on the effect theory formulated by Wolfgang Iser, a reading of the work is carried out, on which this study focuses, in order to problematize the relation between the real, the fictional and the imaginary in the construction of the fairy world. Conducting his studies to the analysis of the effects of literary texts in the individual act of reading, Iser understands the reader as a subject capable of revealing the aesthetics of the work, and also able to interact with the text, by assigning it a particular meaning. From this perspective, the relation between the real, the fictitious and the imaginary is presented as a fundamental attribute of the fictional text, being the imaginary characterized by situations of practical life recreated by the reader in a dialogue with the horizon brought by fiction. Finally, by establishing a comparison between the character Emilia, from Monteiro Lobato’s work, and Clara Luz, a character from Fernanda Lopes de Almeida’s work, both characters considered as modern fairies, the changes occurred in the traditional concept of fairy tale reveal themselves, as well as the effects of these changes in the contemporary reader-child.