A dor que ressoa nos contos pós-64: aspectos de uma ficcionalização do testemunho

Abstract

This dissertation focuses on the relations between literature and history and á ms to identify and analyze recurrent aspects in short stories that fictionalize torture reports linked to the 1964 Brazilian Military Regime. For that, we selected as corpus for this research the following texts: "Acudiram três cavaleiros", by Marques Rabelo (1967); "O mar mais longe que vejo", by Caio Fernando Abreu (1970); "Pedro Ramiro" by Rodolfo Konder (1977); "O jardim das oliveiras", by Nélida Pirion (1980); "Saindo de dentro do corpo" by Flávio Moreira da Costa (1982); "O leite em pó da bondade humana", by Haroldo Maranhão (1983); "Não passarás o Jordão" by Luiz Fernando Emediato (1984); e "A mancha", by Luis Fernando Veríssimo (2003). Such narratives feature as their narrative nucleus torture scenes related to civil-military dictatorship installed in Brazil in 1964. From the hypothesis that those short stories frame compositional aspects of truthful testimony which were esthetically redeveloped in the texts, several times, ripping with what it is theorized about truthful testimony, trying to put into words the hardship of trauma remembrance caused by torture. To enclose such propositions, it was elected as a route the historical contextualization approached in the first chapter, intending to point out the existing relations between the productions and the historical context. Then, in the second chapter, a review of the theorical referential has been done on what this research was based, built over the proposed formulations about the testimony theory. Finally, in the third chapter, the analysis of the corpus has been done, based on three recurrent aspects in the narratives: the characters composition, the arrangement of the narrative and the vocable selection. For such analysis, this research will be established, mainly, in Seligmann-Silva formulations (2003; 2008), Valéria de Marco (2004) and Élcio Loureiro Cornelsen (2011), about historical catastrophes testimonies and fictional dimension of those productions; in Maria Rita Kehl's propositions (2004) about the tortured body; and in Sigmund Freud's considerations (1920) about trauma.