Lei, literatura e transformação social: as obras de Gogol e Dostoiévski como ferramenta de conscientização cidadã e combate à aporofobia

Abstract

The present article aims to conduct an investigation into aporophobia, a phenomenon involving the contempt and aversion towards impoverished individuals, within the context of 19th-century Russian literature. The analysis will be carried out through the examination of Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Poor Folk in order to comprehend the literary representations of social exclusion and their potential legal implications within the Brazilian context. This research intends to promote a critical reflection on the topic, stimulating the debate and deepening the understanding of issues related to aporophobia within our socio-legal framework. Methodologically supported by bibliographic research and guided by the inductive method, the initial hypothesis is formulated and confirmes that literature, as an expression of art, acts as an auxiliary tool to expand the individual's cognitive process, broadening the civic consciousness of the population, and contributing to the effectiveness of laws. In this way, literature assists in combating aporophobia by pressuring the state to take action in promoting new legislation, actions, and public policies that aims at resolving social issues inherent to social inequality.