A importância dos clássicos literários na formação leitora do adolescente

Abstract

ABSTRACT Reading is considered one of the most important practices that represents the history of humanity, since it is fundamental for individual and social development. According to the 6th edition of the survey Retratos da Leitura no Brasil (Portraits of Reading in Brazil) (2024), during adolescence and up to the age of 24, the motivation or taste for reading varies from 31% to 34%. The audience aged 11 to 13 represents the largest number of readers in the country. Reading represents an essential formation for adolescents, improving their cognitive and human development. However, a kind of aversion or resistance to reading literary classics is perceived among this group. Given this problem, we intend to analyze the importance of literary classics in the readingformation of teenagers: strategies to motivate interest in classic reading. It was determined as the general objective: to check the reasons for resistance to reading literary classics in adolescence. And as specific objectives we have: to analyze the aspects of the development and reading formation of adolescents; to identify the reasons that make it difficult to read and interpret literary classics; to discuss strategies for including literary classics in optional reading for young readers. The research was based on the theories of Azevedo (2021), Bakhtin (2013; 2016), Calvino (1993), Candido (2004), Carvalho and Viégas (2016), Cosson (2010; 2014; 2020), as well as distinct works by these and other authors. The study is characterized as bibliographic and field research, it is exploratory in nature and with a qualitative approach. In the research, a questionnaire was used as an instrument, holding twenty five students inthe 2nd grade of high school, in the Centro Estadual de Tempo Integral Professor Milton Aguiar, located in the southeast zone of Teresina-Piauí. The first analysis presents the reasons why adolescents like or dislike reading, as well as their knowledge of literary classics and the factors that make it difficult to read these works.The second analysis highlights the importance of including classics in adolescents' reading habits. It is concluded that the lack of interest in reading has harmed young people, as it is of utmost importance for their intellectual and human development. The reasons that make it hard and keep young people away from reading and classics involve lack of knowledge and stigma, something that needs to be addressed in a responsible and creative way, in order to provide adolescents with a variety of benefits that can be triggered by the practice of reading.

Keywords: Adolescents; Reading habits; Literature; Literary classics.