Remontagens do passado em "A resistência" (2015) e "Corpo interminável" (2019): a literatura como arquivo de experiências históricas

Abstract

In this dissertation, we aim to outline a study based on the works A resistência (2015), by Júlian Fuks, and O corpo interminável (2019), by Claudia Lage, in an attempt to grasp on the literary state that is concerned with the traumas of the past that were bequeathed to the present as personal and non-collective traumas. Thus, the two works make use of resources such as history, memory and “artifacts” from both as a force for fictional production, therefore, the narratives illustrate how past lives in the present or reaches it, and highlight the absences formed by such. In the first moment of our study we seek to understand, briefly, about the policies of the art and its relationship with the past in the “postmodernism”, to understand its policies and its points of agreement and tension. Next, we try to trace the trains of thought that involve literature and history, and their possibilities when the two come together to transport the images of the past. Finally, we follow a path about literature and dictatorship, disappearances and the policies that strengthen the forgetting of our disappeared ones. For that, we rely on discussions by Linda Hutcheon (1991), Bonnici (1999), Leyla Perrone-Moisés (2016), Walter Benjamin (2020) (2021), Marie Gagnebin (2009), Hayden White (2001), Didi-Huberman (2017) (2018), as the main study references. Our conclusion is that literature transports the experience of the past, functioning as an archive, even if it is more than that, since it questions the events that it reconstructs.