A escola brasileira representada em duas obras ficcionais no final do Século XIX e início do Século XX

Abstract

In the try of recovers a history pass of education scenery is put in relief literary images about the school in Brazil. The education in two moments verifieds in two fictions narratives. Education in the history of Brazil, is represented in two stages: The first contrast the experience in a school lived for a personage at rural city of Maranhão and letter in the capital of court, in the second mean of century XIX.The second, a social satire presented in chronicle about the units of education at Rio de Janeiro city, in the first period of our republic. For to development of this study, used as option of source two works of national literature: the romance Pension House (Casa de Pensão, in Portuguese) a romance written by Aluísio Azevedo (1857-1913), from the Brazilian state of Maranhão, and published in the 1880’s; and the compilation Bruzundangas (Os Bruzundangas, in Portuguese), a collection of books written by Lima Barreto (1881-1922), from Rio de Janeiro, and published in the 1920’s. What direction walked the school Brazilian education in finally of century XIX and start of century XX? That context, the debate about the social paper in education, starting of the European and north American headquarters, spraying the intellectual ideal Brazilian. The analyses of the texts allowed the extraction of representations about each school experiences. The relevance of this study it is in present the school place, according of each narrative, in the project of Brazilian society that project that republican.