Biblioteca, leitura literária e afetos em tempos de pandemia

Abstract

Throughout 2020 and 2021, the Library for Childhood and Youth of Iguaçu (BIJI) sought alternatives to promote books and reading in the period of social isolation. For 2 months, during the most critical period of the pandemic, the proposal was to send “story boxes” with literary books and reading mediation practices to the homes of 8 children from neighborhood in the border city of Foz do Iguaçu. The purpose of this article is to present the "story boxes", following in the concepts of setting, act of reading and symbolization of what we understand as literary mediation and to describe the responses of three participants in the literary and artistic experience through the reports they elaborated, analyse them from three categories: the contribution to the life of each reader, the importance of a community sense and the strengthening of the bond between the library and its users. The theoretical foundation that supports the reflections presented is in dialogue with the contributions of Vygotsky (2018; 2009; 1996) in relation to the creative imagination and, in our investigation, we seek to discuss the cognitive and affective aspects of development offered in non-formal learning spaces how is a community library. The “story boxes” proved to be a significant possibility in the processes of approximation with literary reading and in the formation of a community of readers.