Sting and guilt: a dialogue between Valter Hugo Mãe and Bernardo Kucinski
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https://doi.org/10.37508/rcl.2020.n44a394Keywords:
Valter Hugo Mãe, Bernardo Kucinski, sting and guilt, Salazarism, Brazilian military dictatorshipAbstract
From a comparative perspective, the present study aims to propose a dialogue between the works a máquina de fazer espanhóis (2011) by Valter Hugo Mãe and K.: relato de uma busca (2016), by Bernardo Kucinski. Both Salazarism and the Brazilian military dictatorship (with due regard for differences and respective historical contexts) can be read, metaphorically, as great evils, which deeply affected the Portuguese and the Brazilian social bodies. The protagonists of the two novels, each in their own way, react differently to the alienating pressures of that “great evil”, clarified by Hannah Arendt’s reflections on Origins of totalitarianism (1951) and Elias Canetti on Masse und Macht (1960).text, since it is placed as a place of memory and a way of communication between the past and the present.
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