Formação humana na perspectiva filosófico-literária: uma leitura do romance Recordações do escrivão Isaías Caminha, de Lima Barreto

Abstract

This thesis proposes a reading of the novel Recordações do escrivão Isaías Caminha, written by the Brazilian literati Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto, in the light of the concept of novel’s formation (Bildungsroman). For this purpose, shows a panorama about the writer’s life and work followed by the survey of research conducted in Brazil on it´s work until the month of January 2020. It examines the concept and function of literature from the conception of humanization of man as a primordial process for his existence, in order to recognize that the dynamics of the relationship between the roles of the writer and the reader is fundamental for literary communication. To elaborate some approximations between the concept of literary engagement thought by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and the conception of militant literature, of which the writer was adept. It uses the definitions and characteristics of Bildungsroman and romantic irony, according by the First German Romanticism to find points of similarity with the writer’s literature. Depending on Bildung’s meaning, it examines the concept of education as a process of formation of man in the becoming, attributing culture and language to the role of supporting educational action. The reading of Lima Barreto’s novel is performed through the comparison with the conceptualization and characteristics of the novelist genre, in particular, the novel’s formation as proposed by Mikhail Bakhtin and Franco Moretti. Considering the novel’s of formation as the form of literary expression derived from the conception of human formation, the thesis points Recordações do escrivão Isaías Caminha as a legitimate Brazilian formation novel because it contains compatible elements with the genre. Demonstrates that the plot develops in the perspective of Brazilianness, determining factor for the scribe narrative. The scenario, set in the newsroom of a newspaper in Brazilian capital, then Rio de Janeiro, and the the protagonist’s characterization reflects this Brazilianness giving the text a character of singularity before the conception of a novel’s formation.