A árvore, de Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós: experiência afetiva e multissensorial para quaisquer leitores

Abstract

Reading the poetic composition, A árvore, written by Bartolomeu Campos de Queirós and illustrated by Mario Cafiero, leads readers of different ages to an affective and multisensory experience. In this experience, the aesthetic quality of the text, in its verbal and visual portions, stands out. The present research intends to evidence affectivity under different aspects, such as that inherent to language, that involved in the relationship of reader with the literary text, and that implied in the teacher-student relationship, as deduced from one of the possible readings of this literary piece. Similarly, through the study of recurrent stylistic resources in the text, we investigate the mechanisms by which the senses of reader are sharpened, such as the use of the sounds of language and the processing of metaphors, including synesthesia. Finally, three reading levels are proposed for literary composition. To achieve the proposed objectives, we resort to the theory of reading, mainly from Vincent Jouve (2002) and Daniel Pennac (1993) to the fundamental principles of Stylistics, the method chosen to analyze it, based on the concepts of José Lemos Monteiro (2009) and Nilce Sant'Anna Martins (2012), among other authors, and, as support in the reading of the illustrations, to Vera Maria Tietzmann Silva (2021). It is concluded that there are three possible reading levels for A árvore: the first of them encompasses fruition besides being more likely to child or to adult reader; the second allows interpreting it as a metaphor of teacher-student relationship; and, finally, reading undertaken by critical reader — full reading level —, seeks, for example, to analyze stylistic resources in it, propose a metalinguistic understanding, identify intertextualities, and comment on illustrations. The last two levels mentioned are more likely to experienced reader, therefore, evidencing that the chosen book emotes and instigates adults and children