Memorial do Convento: uma proposta de roteiro de leitura

Abstract

The literary production of José de Sousa Saramago, a Portuguese author, is configured at an international level, in the exercise of different aesthetics of the romantic genre, among them, the New Historical Romance, that have in his work Memorial do Convento, published in 1982, one of the most significant examples of the genre composed by the writer.The scope of this research is to provide for high school students and teachers, the educational product a Reading guide in order to promote the effectiveness of the literary process and critical reflection around the novel. The problem lies in the rejection of some students for the appreciation of a book, even when it is not constituted as a canonical work. The use of the mentioned product is justified, due to the resistance of some students in reading literary canons, for being associated with a more complex and often archaic language. In this way, José Saramago's work adds a particular lexical and syntactic choice, which demands a guide to support the reader in the structural and semantic aspects of the work. According to the hybrid proposal of contemporary teaching, anchored by Rojo, the availability of the script in the book creator version for online access was defined. The discussion of textual genres and language is based on the studies made by Marcuschi and Kleimann, as well as the contributions regarding the importance of literature are reinforced in Candido, and the perspective of literary literacy in Cosson. The other theoretical foundations on which this work is based are supported by the studies of the historical novel in Lukacs, followed by the New Historical Novel in Esteves and the historiographical metafiction in Hutcheon. Regarding intertextuality and dialogism, the research cites Bakhtin, Samoyault and Kristeva, also mentioned by Sant'anna, Koch, Barros and Fiorin. At the end, the result of applying the product developed through stages in the format of a reading workshop will be presented.