No território da contradição: aspectos da ditadura civil-militar brasileira em dois contos de A morte de D.J. em Paris, de Roberto Drummond

Abstract

A morte de D.J. em Paris (1975), a collection of short stories signed by the Brazilian writer Roberto Drummond, was published in a context in which the authoritarian regime of the Brazilian civilmilitary dictatorship made literary writing even more difficult in the country. Thus, writers often had to deal with an impasse: to write literature in order to say what was intended, and at the same time to pass through the scrutiny of censorship without harming the message and the aesthetic criterion. Based on the influences of the context on the literature of the time, this research aims mainly to investigate the way the short stories “Objetos pertencentes a Fernando B, misteriosamente desaparecido” e “A morte de D.J. em Paris” internalizes some contradictions of the context of the military dictatorship and to describe the main aesthetic procedures used by the author with this goal. In order to achieve these aims, the analysis was developed from methodology conception from Candido (1993); from Bakhtin's (2003; 2015) dialogic perspective and based on Eco (2013) considerations on ambiguity and "open work" e de Gouveia (2009) about the limits of short story theory.