Escrita interminável: o testemunho impossível em K.: Relato de uma Busca, de Bernardo Kucinski

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to carry out an analysis of K.: Relato de uma Busca, by Bernardo Kucinski based on the notion of testimony. The book tells the story of the character K.'s search for his missing daughter during the Brazilian military dictatorship. To this end, we will propose an initial theoretical discussion about the perspectives and notions of what constitutes a work with testimonial content, mainly based on the research of Márcio Seligmann-Silva. Still in the first part, we present a dialogue between literature and history, based on texts by Walter Benjamin and readings carried out by Seligmann-Silva and Jeanne Marie Gagnebin. To address the issue of trauma and mourning, we set foot in psychoanalysis together with Freud, in addition to delving into the notion of resentment based on the studies of Maria Rita Kehl and Luis Kancyper. In the second part of the work, we begin the analysis of Bernardo Kucinski's report, with a study that proposes to be multidisciplinary by touching on literary issues and also by building dialogues with the theories presented previously and other texts from the sociological and journalistic fields. In this movement, we present a contextualization of the Brazilian dictatorship from the perspective of its continuity, based on texts by Fabio Victor, Edson Teles, among others. Finally, we look at testimony as a possible place for individual and collective repair.