Banca de DEFESA: CAIO VITOR COSTA DA SILVA

Kucinski family: RESISTANCE AND LITERATURE DENOUNCING THE CRIMES OF THE CIVIL-MILITARY DICTATORSHIP.

Kucinski family. Disappearance. Memory. Literature. Dictatorship.

The purpose of the research is to examine the memory produced from the disappearance of Ana Rosa Kucinski Silva, highlighting the struggle of her relatives – Majer Kucinski e Bernardo Kucinski - in search of the whereabouts of her unburied body, amid the memory policies instituted by the Brazilian State that are acquiring evidence in the Brazil, since 1979, with the publication of the Amnesty Law, passing through the National Truth Commission, in 2012, until the present day. This work also aims to reflect on the contributions of denunciation literature to address sensitive issues related to the Civil-Military Dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985) using as sources the writings produced by journalist Bernardo Kucinski, related to the various fictional and that inspire recollection and analysis of this traumatic past. Among the novels published by Kucinski, we will pay special attention to the following: : K. Relato de uma Busca (2014), Alice: não mais que de repente (2014), Os Visitantes (2016), Júlia: nos campos conflagrados do Senhor (2020) and O Congresso dos Desaparecidos (2023). The research is part of the struggle for memory, truth and justice, in addition to respect for human rights, aiming at reparations for victims of exceptional regimes. As a result of the investigations, we realized that the searches for the politically disappeared are inserted in the sphere of restoration of a memory that is always in dispute, as a political instrument, involving direct family members, institutions and the Brazilian State itself.