ETHICAL AND AESTHETIC ANALYSIS OF THE STORIES OF BRAZILIAN ANA MARIA MACHADO
Ethics; Aesthetics; Tale; Oral tradition; Ana Maria Machado.
The present research project aims to analyze the ethical content and aesthetic form of Ana Maria Machado's work in the collection of four volumes of Histórias à Brasileira, using the selected stories as corpus, although not exclusively. The short stories call attention because the author used techniques originating from the traditional oral narrative and rework in written form with a particular touch. The narrative procedure practiced by the author in the retelling process will be analyzed, especially in the aesthetic aspects that bring it closer and / or distance it from the popular narrative tradition, under its skill and creativity in the task of directing the stories retold to the child audience, the formation of ethics originated in popular wisdom that can still be built from reading the retelling. It presents a brief analysis of Walter Benjamin's concepts of mimesis and childhood, in which the author calls into question children's learning through the mimetic capacity when realizing their knowledge of the world with the permanent exercise of imagination, fantasy and sensitivity.