Os PONTOS, OS FIOS E NÓS: A LITERATURA COMO UM DIREITO

Abstract

This article intends to develop a reflection about an artistic-literary action carried out with boys deprived of their liberty, from the Centro de Atendimento Socioeducativo de Caxias do Sul / RS, and with primary school students who studied remotely, during the coronavirus pandemic. Based mainly on the theories of Michelè Petit (2009), about the role that reading plays in crisis spaces, and on the concept of literature as universal right, by Antonio Candido (2011), we carry out reading actions using the texts E agora José?, by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and O Espelho, by Machado de Assis. As a production based on reading mediation, each adolescent embroidered, on a small cloth, a phrase that most touched him from the texts, or that he created from them. Thus, joining cloth to cloth, we composed the large mosaic of  stitches,  threads and the knots from the quarantine.