El acceso a la literatura clásica a través de la literatura juvenil contemporánea: estado de la cuestión

Abstract

The reading of classics at the Secondary Education and A levels is a topic that has been tried for a long time. Different Spanish teachers have expressed their opinion for or against it. The discussion focuses on the mandatory nature of this kind of works, since the students have to deal with works that belong to classic literature, it is possible they may have had a bad experience if they do not understand their meaning. However, they had to read them compulsorily in a mandatory way because it supposes a qualification in the subject. But it is also true that they cannot arrive to the University without having read certain essential titles in our culture. Possibilities are many, but there are a lot of books of youth literature that are part of the literary canon, but that fulfil the characteristics that every teacher considers necessary in the students’ approach to literary works.