The parting point is childhood understood not as an evolutionary state, but as a state of imagination. To this end, The little prince, one of the most famous texts that "teaches the imagination" (defining it as a source, and even as a refuge, of the imaginary) is analyzed. The little prince would, from this perspective, constitute a landmark text on the relationship that could be established between reading, imagination and childhood.
Keywords:
childhood; Saint-Exupéry; imagination.
| cap. i | Infância do narrador | "6 anos" |
| cap. ii | Reencontro com a infância no deserto | "Há seis anos" |
| cap. iii-vi | Lugar da infância: planeta próprio | Melancolia, ennui |
| cap. vii-ix | Pânico da infância | (A rosa: o feminino) |
| cap. x-xv | Planetas menores | Diálogos com o social |
| cap. xvi | Chegada ao sétimo planeta | |
| cap. xvii-xxi | Diálogo com as flores: no centro, eco | Diálogos com o natural |
| cap. xxii-xxiii | Diálogo com a raposa | Diálogos com o social |
| cap. xxiv-xxv | Experiência | Tesouro escondido |
| cap. xxvi | Desaparição da infância | |
| cap. xxvii | Regresso à sociedade | (reenclausuramento) |
