Name: REBECCA DE ARAUJO RIBEIRO
Publication date: 03/05/2024
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| FABIOLA SIMAO PADILHA TREFZGER | Examinador Interno |
| MARIA AMELIA DALVI SALGUEIRO | Presidente |
| MARIANA PASSOS RAMALHETE | Examinador Externo |
Summary: It analyzes the short stories “The man who saw death”, “The last day in the life of
the blacksmith” and “The young man who did not want to die”, from the works
Contos de Enganar a Morte, by Ricardo Azevedo (2003), and “Death and the
fugitive”, “Death and the old woman” and “Death and the innkeeper”, from the
collectanea Contos de Morte Morrida, by Ernani Ssó (2007). It investigates how
death has been conceived in works of contemporary Brazilian children’s and youth
literature based on tales from popular culture. The studies of Adichie (2021), Ariès
(1989, 1990, 2012), Becker (1991 [1973]), Elias (2001), Franco (2021) Freud
(2021 [1915], 2011 [1917]), Han (2020 , 2021) and Schopenhauer (2020) on the
theme of death constituted a background to understand how death was being
elaborated by human beings, in the transit between the popular and the erudite,
until reaching the contemporary moment and its literary elaboration in scope of the
works under study. To also make considerations about the literary creation by
Ricardo Azevedo and Ernani Ssó, was used the studies of Alcoforado (2008),
Cascudo (2012; 2013), Cortázar (2006), Gotlib (1998) and Traça (1998) on the
tale; and by Lajolo and Zilberman (2007) and Colomer (2017) on children’s and
youth literature. The works of Bergson (1983) and Eagleton (2020) has based the
dimension of the analysis concerning humor, recurrent both in popular culture and
in children’s and youth literature. It concludes that the stories studied do not deny
death or the negative feelings it can produce but symbolize it as a humanized and
comical character.
KEYWORDS: Infancy; Brazilian literature; Children's literature; Youth literature;
Death.
