Dreams between the pages of Meu Pé de Laranja Lima: imagination and poetic reverie returned to childhood
O Meu Pé de Laranja Lima. Poetic imagination. Oneiric childhood. Poetic fantasy. Imaginary and poetic images.
The imagination is an inseparable part of the anthropos (MORIN, 2015; 2012; 2011), integrating all existing dimensions in society and culture. Based on this assumption, the present research aims to problematize the imaginative manifestation in the sociocultural plane, adopting the romanesque narrative of My Foot of Laranja Lima (1995) as main field of study. This is because the novel tells the story of Zeze, a boy who makes use of his imagination in reading reality, through which he prints in himself and in the other romanesque characters multiple meanings from his imagined world. Thus, the literary images (BACHELARD, 2008b) present in the novel will be read under the inspiration of the poetic reverie directed towards childhood (BACHELARD, 2009), since I identify in Zeze attributes related to this dreamy bachelardian infant. The theoretical-methodological course of the research is guided by the phenomenology of the poetic imagination of Gaston Bachelard (2009, 2008), considering that I propose to carry out a poetic reading of the novel buoyed by the literary images gestated in reading daydream. I observed that in the course of the plot traumatic experiences contributed to the suppression of Zeze's imaginative potential, conditioning him to a rational apprehension of reality, no longer supported by the poeticity of his imagined dreams and friends. Imagine, then, did not make Zeze a child with attributes of naivety or passivity - differing from what is commonly associated with children and imagination. On the contrary, the boy's imaginative potential enabled him to reinvent his reality through the feelings and actions instigated by poetically conceived images.