A leitura e seus infernos: Monteiro Lobato e a proibição da leitura.

Abstract

This work reflects on the controversial issue of banning the distribution of the school book Caçadas de Pedrinho proposed to schools by the National Council of Education. Our proposal, anchored in theoretical pedagogy of Paulo Freire - reflecting on issues related to reading and their way of emancipating the human -, added to the conceptions of what constitutes literature erected by Antonio Candido, aims at discussing the discourse of the National Council through reflections on the book Caçadas de Pedrinho and its importance to readers in schools. For this purpose, we analyze the lobatian text and examine some of the arguments of the document produced by the Council concerning its position on Monteiro Lobato and his literature.