Ecos do Bildungsroman em O meu pé de laranja lima e Vamos aquecer o sol, de José Mauro de Vasconcelos

Abstract

The present coursework has as main objective to carry out a qualitative analysis of the works My sweet orange tree (1982) and Let´s heat up the Sun (1982), by José Mauro de Vasconcelos, under the perspective of the concept of coming of age novel, given its permanence and the innovative character of a research that thinks of them as such. As a theoretical reference, this research mainly adopts the works of PUGA (2016), MAAS (2000) and SANTOS (2016). These studies indicate the existence of the classic and closed coming of age novel in its concept that emerged with the publication of Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1994), by GOETHE, the most current and modern coming of age novel, as an evolution and/or subversion of the traditional genre, and also of the young adult coming of age novel. It was observed that, among the diverse conceptions of the Bildungsroman, some of them allow the possibility of reading the two works of VASCONCELOS as a single Brazilian young adult coming of age novel, after all, there are characteristics in these narratives that strongly dialogue with the concepts studied, among which we highlight the character's reflection on his growth, his maturation and not just a passage of time and the possibility that the two books can be understood as a single coming of age novel that contemplates this process.