Direito à literatura: espaço de devaneio e redenção, fonte de lucidez e transformação

Abstract

This article aims to defend the necessity and urgency of thinking about literature as a right, surging as a necessary proposal in the search for spiritual nourishment, beauty, and emancipation, according to Antonio Candido (2011) and Michèle Petit (2009). The defense is based on the fact that the traditional notion of human rights, typical of the state model built in the eighteenth century on the basis of bourgeois liberal ideals, is in itself exclusionary and insufficient for the construction of a subject able to perceive himself as a part of a solidarity-based tangle, according to the warming of postmodern theorists, here represented by Lyotard (2009). Finally, it is hoped to contribute to the identification of the many spaces of literature in the world of multiplicity, pointing to the legal pluralism outlined by Wolkmer (1997) as a solution in the search for the right to literature faithful to its liberating purposes and therefore, away from compulsion and control.