The horrible story to be told after August: an analysis of two short stories by Caio Fernando Abreu

• Autor(a) principal: Moreira, Ricardo A.
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Literatura e Autoritarismo
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/LA/article/view/74654
• topic: Caio Fernando Abreu; Depois de Agosto; Linda, uma história horrível; AIDS; Caio Fernando Abreu; Depois de Agosto; Linda, uma história horrível; AIDS

Currently a reference author of Brazilian literature, Caio Fernando Abreu was part of a generation of writers that was repressed by the authoritarianism of the dictatorial government, suffering from censorship and the limitation of freedom of artistic and political expression. Approaching themes such as the uncertainty of life, the fear of death and sex and the approach to AIDS, considered the “gay cancer” in the 80s and of which he was a victim, made one of his short stories, “Linda, uma horrible story” (1988), was included in the anthology The Penguin book of international gay writing in 1995. Within the theme of AIDS, the short story “Linda, a horrible story” (Linda) together with “After August” (1995), published shortly before his death in 1996, will be analyzed here based on aspects of illness, sadness and melancholy of his characters.