Os doze trabalhos de Hércules: uma leitura do herói em Monteiro Lobato

Abstract

This work makes an interpretation of the book Os Doze Trabalhos de Hércules (1944), by Monteiro Lobato, from hero's performance represented in this narrative and the literal production and review mechanism. In this study we developed, in the first moment, a fild research in heap of the Monteiro Lobato Infantile Library, in São Paulo city, and of the "Alexandre Eulálio" Cultural Documentation Center, in University of Campinas-SP, where some editions, since the first in 1944 to the present one, were selected and compared. In second moment, we have the basis of the literary reception that analyses the conception and function of the hero, Hercules's myth and it interprets Lobato's plot. With the development of this study, we try to point Lobato as the hero of his writing, through the process of the literal production and review that elaborated to retell a myth under the modern tendency of teamwork and intelligence related to Lobato’s promises with child's knowledge and cultural development.