Reconstrução e superação: a literatura de testemunho em o corpo interminável, de Claudia Lage

Abstract

This work intends to identify and analyze the narrative elements present in O corpo interminável, by Claudia Lage, taking as a starting point the reflections of Seligmann-Silva (1998, 2002, 2003, 2008) and Wilberth Salgueiro (2012) to verify the work as testimonial literature. From this bias, the analysis also seeks to understand how the novel in question relates to the right to memory and the Brazilian socio-political context after the Comissão Nacional da Verdade (CNV). Therefore, the notes presented in the Programa Nacional de Direitos Humanos (PNDH-3) (2008) and in the Relatório da Comissão Nacional da Verdade (2014) will also be taken as a basis; and the considerations of Cunha (2020) regarding the changes that occurred in the Brazilian political scenario, during a decade that followed the CNV. In addition, it is necessary to understand the historical context narrated in the novel (the period of the military dictatorship and redemocratization), including the activities of repression and torture present in the narrative. For this, the registers made by Alves (2005), Reis (2005) and Napolitano (2014) will be considered. From this, it is possible to verify that the fragmented structure of the novel and the diversity of voices in the narrative support a succession of individual reports that, when added together, establish the representation of the collective event that inserts the work in the testimonial literature.