A CONSTRUÇÃO DA MEMÓRIA PELO VIÉS DA VIOLÊNCIA EM NOITE DENTRO DA NOITE, DE JOCA REINERS TERRON

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the construction of memory through the bias of violence in the novel Night within the night (2017), by the contemporary Brazilian writer, poet, prose writer, playwright, graphic designer, reviewer and translator, Joca Reiners Terron. Selected, among many other works by the author, for raising several concerns about individual and/or collective trauma(s) produced in the individual. The novel conceived from the twelfth chapter, 'The Mouse in the Labyrinth', allows us to engender in the universe of memory through the bias of violence. In it we find a combination of memory, politics, adventure and mystery. It begins with the accident of the character "you", in Medianeira, a city in Paraná, however, "most of the story" is set "in Mato Grosso and the Paraguayan Chaco" (TERRON, 2017, p. 379), where the boy grows up in the midst of the violence of a society dominated by the civil-military dictatorship. However, the plot also engenders other paths through fiction, such as the rescue of the ancestors of the Reiners family and those condemned to violence and clandestinity imposed by exceptional political regimes. The history of violence in Brazil, in the period of 1960 and 1970, is rescued by Terron, in an attempt to fill the gaps left unanswered during the "Year of the Great White" – Year erased from the memory of the character "you" from the accident - in the memory of the "unremembered". In the narrative, we were able to prove how the memory of the character(s) was constructed/reconstructed from the concepts of violence, as this is imbricated in the ascension of man as a human being. Thus, if literature is something inherent to man, we soon conclude that violence is present in it as well. In order to reach this purpose, we take as a basis the literary studies of Massaud Moisés, Osman Lins, Gerard Genette, among others, as well as the studies of memory, with Maurice Halbwachs, Zilá Bernd, in addition to using the conceptions of Hannah Arendt, Yves Michaud, about violence, to name some of the theorists listed in this research.

Keywords: Joca Reiners Terron; Autobiography; Authoritarianism; Memory; Violence; Noite dentro da noite.