O pagador de promessas, de Dias Gomes: a dramaturgia para a formação do leitor literário

Abstract

This work aims to present to Portuguese language teachers from Elementary School, final grades, focusing on the ninth grades, a mediation proposal for the formation of the literary reader, taking as a model the basic sequence of Rildo Cosson presented in his books Literary Literacy: theory & practice (2006) and Reading Circles and Literary Literacy (2020). The proposal is followed by suggestions for textual production through the practice of re-textualization/remaking. As a base text, both for the formation of the reader and for the textual productions, we used the play O pagador de promessas, by Dias Gomes. Dramaturgy, an underutilized genre in textbooks and Portuguese language classes, presents a structure and language that meet the proposal's demand: awakening a taste for literary reading and improving students' writing practice, through its re-textualization/reworking for other genres. For the practices of literary literacies, we rely on Cosson (2006); for the retextualizations/reformations, we used Marcuschi (2010), Terra (2020) and Antunes (2005). The BNCC consultation (2018), as well as the readings of Candido (2011), Compagnon (2009), Barthes (1977, 1987), Lajolo (1982), Perrone-Moisés (2016) and Geraldi (2011), were also used for the theoretical contribution. With this work, we hope to contribute, at least, to the formation of literary readers at school and beyond it.