De contos a curtas: a formação de leitores na escola

Abstract

This search discusses the importance of literature in the constitution of the subjects, and it analyzes a reading project with high school students as a possibility of approaching the literary text at school, based on short stories by Machado de Assis. Underpinned especially on Candido (1995), Iser (1979), Larrosa (2003) and Petit (2008), the study discusses grounds for a transformative work with literature, such as space of cognition, creation and enjoyment, where students producer readers can, by understanding the world in the paper, to understand themselves, the others, and be breeder of new worlds.