Pedro pedra: Análise da obra como um romance de formação juvenil e sua contribuição para a busca de identidade e pertencimento do jovem leitor

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to perform the analysis of the book Pedro pedra written by Gustavo Bernardo, as a novel of education and the discussion on its role in the young readers’ search for identity. As a theoretical framework, this paper is based primarily on the researches of PUGA (2016), SANTOS (2016) and LARROSA (1996 and 2002), that bring the concepts on classical novel of education and its transformations in the contemporaneity, juvenile literature and the characteristics of this genre, taking into account the readdressing of many novels that are now classified as such, and on reading as an educational experience of transformation for the young reader, respectively. During the development of the research, it was verified that the book Pedro pedra can be considered as a contemporary educational novel in the spectrum of the juvenile literature, given that it presents characteristics of bildungsroman after its transformation from the original book of the classical genre. We also identified that the book can provoke in the young readers the emotional growth and impulse of search for their own identities from the experiences and transformations lived by the main character.