Espaços e personagens em Vozes da selva, de Horácio Quiroga : abrindo caminhos para a literatura hispano-americana nas aulas de LE

Abstract

This work aims to study the short stories of uruguayan author Horacio Quiroga, focusing on the observation of the relation between literary space and character. Beyond theory, its goal is to realize how the concepts we resort to can be reused in Spanish-American literature teaching in Spanish language classes for brazilians. In order to do so, we explore short story theories (POE, 1842; PROPP, 1984 [1969]; CORTÁZAR, 2011 [1974]; MOISÉS, 1983 [1983]; GOTLIB, 2006 [1990]; KIEFER, 2011), and space (SARMIENTO, 1996 [1845]; WILLIAMS, 1989 [1921]; BACHELARD, 1988 [1957]; LINS, 1976; DIMAS, 1994) and literary character theories (CÂNDIDO, 1981; MOISÉS, 1983; REIS, 1999), in the interest of presenting a reflection about the use of the Spanish-American short story in the brazilian High School curriculum. Primarily based on the methodological and theoretical method of Cosson (2006), a step by step of a literary expanded teaching sequence using as an example the short story “Los Desterrados” in its original version in spanish, along with suggestions which can make way for interdisciplinary approaches.