Mito revisitado: análise e adaptações da história de Fausto para o público infantojuvenil

Abstract

Traditionally, literary studies theorists have given little focus to oral texts for believing in scripture as the only source of artistic texts with theory disparaging thus the historical value and the very character of oral literature. The same happens with the literature focused on the infant-juvenile public that, despite winning the publishing market, still finds it difficult to get to the list of books accepted by the literary canon. Through adaptations and translations are giving opportunities about the approach of the young readers of classic works, whose languages and chronological and social distance configure deterrent factor of their reading. This paper was intended in discussing how was the transition from folk / oral literature to the canonical literature, taking the example of the King of the Elves and the establishment of a literary myth based on oral / folk: the Faustbuch to Goethe s Faust. We tried to make a reflection on itself literature process from stories that were told through the transmission and transformed into literature to finally be possible to analyze the multiple adaptations of Faust for contemporary children and youth literature.