Monteiro Lobato, um emancipador à margem da tradição

Abstract

This monography analised Monteiro Lobato's children's literature in respect to the interpretation of 20th century literature critics as well as Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic principles. To do so, the analysis started from a historical path, retaking the roots of children's literature in Europe, since the oral age of the myth, up to the 19th century; all in order to arrive in Brazil so as to focus on Monteiro Lobato's literature. This final paper explains how the writer breaks from the classic casts and begins a new model of children's narrative. To analise his works' corpus, besides using the 20th century literary critics theories, contextualization through Mikhail Bakhtin's dialogic principle was indispensable. We conclude that Lobato initiated, in Brazil, a new stetics in children's literature, his being emancipative by nature.