K. relato de uma busca: the impossible memory of death.

Abstract

This paper is an analysis of the novel K. Relato de uma busca by Bernardo Kucinski. Its purpose is that Literature is a recall of an event for which there’s no memory: death. Thus, it makes it possible to bring the novel’s narrative closer to the Brazilian military dictatorship period, when the state of exception, even after the torture and disappearance of hundreds of Brazilian citizens, denied to their relatives and parents the historical truth about their deaths. Therefore, death becomes impossible for those victimized by the state’s terrorism. In Kucinski’s novel, the narrative becomes a territory of an infinite dying, which conducts to the limit the impossible death of the people who disappeared for political reasons. So, this work analyses the ongoing discussion of post-Auschwitz theorists on writing and it highlights the impossibility of testimony and of fiction in the light of an event in which History astonishes and burns itself.