historical experience, Brazil, civil-military dictatorship, perplexity, fictional approach

Authors

  • Beatriz de Moraes Vieira UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-0967/3756

Keywords:

historical experience, Brazil, civil-military dictatorship, perplexity, fictional approach

Abstract

Starting from two books, Inventory of Scars by Alex Polari, and K. by Bernardo Kucinski, this article analyses the place of literature in dealing with painful historical experiences in Brazil under the last dictatorship (1964-85). In these works, the notion of perplexity is associated with different strategies of memory as the registration of prison experience for future acknowledgment or the post reorganization of remembrances about the search for a missing person. In both cases, the poetic or fictional approach is fundamental for the mimesis of a damaged life and justifies the hypothesis of “perplexity” as a possible way of translating the “immensurable” experienced during that historical process.

Published

2013-06-12

How to Cite

de Moraes Vieira, B. (2013). historical experience, Brazil, civil-military dictatorship, perplexity, fictional approach. Confluenze. Rivista Di Studi Iberoamericani, 5(1), 48–65. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-0967/3756