O ser criança e sua representação na obra literária "Infância" de Graciliano Ramos

Abstract

Infância, published in 1945 is one of the novels of the writer of Alagoas Graciliano Ramos. The text stands out for the aspects of memories, in other words, narratives that are between history and fiction. However, the novel shouldn’t be cosidered as something the recounts the outhor’s life or exclusively biografical text. In the narrative, we are faced with situations that are between past and presente in a process that narrator recalls and nalyses situations experienced in his daily life. We propose as an element of discussion to this dissertation examines representation of chidren na childhood presented in literary text based on that we call Tripé Institucional, na expression. Cined from the verification of a composition of forces and powers that are presents in the narrative of Graciliano Ramos. Family, State and Church are instituitions that form the basis of this tripod aims to social education and formation of the child. These are elements and their representations wich generate the ideas forces that are root of the composition and follow pervades the development of literary and life of th child in their actions and relations with the presented social world.