Entre o ficcional e o histórico: uma análise de os Anjos Contam Histórias, de Luiz Antonio Aguiar

Abstract

The production of contemporary youth literary has as main characteristic the breaking with a pedagogical and moralizing character of literature since the late 1980s. As a result, it is increasingly common to encounter narratives focused on the development of themes such as social inequality, prejudices (of class, gender, race, etc.), as well as, the rescue of the historical past. Considering, this last characteristic, the novel Os Anjos Contam Histórias (2012), by Luiz Antônio Aguiar, was chosen as an object of study for the development of this research. This work, in turn, is a narrative that leads its reader to revisit the national memory throughout the history of Inconfidência Mineira, being led by the mystery of the disappearance of the head of Tiradentes, one of the leaders of the conspiracy to be condemned the execution. Considering this information, this dissertation aims to analyze the relationship between the history and fiction in the refered literary work, such as, to discuss the conceptions and characteristics of youth literature from the reading of Os Anjos Contam Histórias; relate the historical facts of the Inconfidência Mineira with fictionalized in the work in question, in view of the target reader who is the youth reader; and verify in the process of overlapping historical facts with fictionalized the narrator's configuration in Luiz Antônio Aguiar's novel. For that, the methodology used was bibliographic research based on the theoretical basis of Ceccantini (2000), Lajolo and Zilberman (1988), Ramos and Navas (2016), White (2014, 2019), Hutcheon (1991), Gobbi (2011), among others. It is observed that Os Anjos Contam Histórias consists of a historical narrative, in which rescue the country's historical past, it reconstructs the scenes of Inconfidência Mineira, such as the disappearance of Tiradentes' head and the death of Cláudio Manuel da Costa; that being narrated and demonstrate the recovery, the reinterpretation and fictionalization of Brazilian history.