A MORTE NA LITERATURA INFANTIL E JUVENIL: ANÁLISE DAS OBRAS O PALÁCIO JAPONÊS E O MEU AMIGO PINTOR

Abstract

Death is a constant theme in the literature. Thus, when we come into contact with various works, it is possible to verify how this subject is treated in different times and cultures. In our work, we try to verify how the theme of death is seen in eastern and western cultures. For such, we chose as research corpus the works O meu amigo pintor, by the writer Lygia Bojunga, and O palácio japonês, by the author José Mauro de Vasconcelos, which are part of Brazilian children's and youth literature. In both works, based on the friendship of a boy and his painter friend, Bojunga and Vasconcelos deal with death, highlighting the understanding that different cultures have about this natural phenomenon. They base our discussions on Children's and Youth Literature, the research by the authors Abramovich (2005); Coelho (2000); Franca, Souza, Dias and Farias (2009); Lajolo and Zilberman (2007), among others. Regarding the poetics of death, we use as theoretical-critical contribution the studies by Chevalier and Gheerbrant (2009); Combinato and Queiroz, (2006); Santos and Franca (2017); Silva (2002); Souza (2009).