Lost Ilusions

Education and Reality

Abstract

This article constitutes a means by which we approach, from the ontological critique, the contributions of Honoré de Balzac’s work Lost Illusions to educational reflection. For that, in a first moment, we approached the importance of understanding the links between art and school education using the lukacsian´s elaborations as a parameter. Art and education, in this sense, are social complexes that are mutually determined with the social totality. In a second step, we deal with the analytical potentialities of the text here on screen and its relevance in teacher education. Finally, in our final remarks, we defend the need for appropriation and transmission of literary classics and great art as an indispensable practice for the educational activity committed to human development.