O pequeno príncipe: uma reflexão sobre as personagens literárias e sua relação com os perfis humanos na contemporaneidade

Abstract

This article presents an analysis of the work The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, above all, with references to fictional characters and metaphors that exist in the narrative, initially aimed at children. Considering that Children's and Youth Literature is loaded with metaphors that provide a reflection on values, attitudes, actions and different world views that may be being revealed and denounced throughout the literary writing. Thus, the general objective of academic research consists of reflecting on the fictional characters present in the work, with reference to the symbologies and associating them contemporary human profiles. Among the specific objectives, the following stand out: to illustrate, through dialogues present in the exuperyana work, metaphorical representations of the values ​​present in society and present brief data about the work and the author. The work The Little Prince, by Saint-Exupéry, which presents human and social issues related to the 1940s, a period in which the work was written, but which still endure in the contemporary universe, marking timelessness. The research is bibliographic, of approach qualitative and to dialogue with the theme, the theorists Sosa (1991), Viscondelet (2008), Dryzun (2009), were used, Müller; Mafra de Lima (2017), among others.