The Brazilian Military Dictatorship reviewed in two texts by Salim Miguel

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Ana Cláudia de Oliveira da
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Literatura e Autoritarismo
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufsm.br/LA/article/view/18263
• topic: Salim Miguel; Ditadura Militar; Trauma; Narrative form; Salim Miguel; Military Dictatorship; Trauma; Forma narrativa

The current work focuses on the analysis of the book Primeiro de abril: narrativas da cadeia and the chronicle Seqüelas de uma prisão whose belong to the compendium Eu e as corruíras by Salim Miguel. In these reports it is highlighted the traumatic experience lived by the author and its future effects; all consequences of the forty-eight days that he stayed in jail during the Military Dictatorship in the city of Florianópolis-SC. This way, in the eyewitness account as well as in the chronicle, it is possible to realize a certain difficulty to retell and an ethical duty to remember what cannot be forgotten. Such duty underlies the subjectivity of the writer-narrator that, even traumatized, tries to register the events in a rational way; however, he leaves traces in the chosen narrative form. In this sense, this work aims at analyzing why certain formal narrative choices are selected having as assistance the journalistic chronicle written by the author.