A resistência: o discurso híbrido de Julián Fuks como ferramenta de militância literária

Abstract

The present study aims to employ a critical-analytical reflection, taking the auto-fictional novel The Resistance, published in 2015 by Julián Fuks, as a corpus of investigation. It intends to show how Fuks' narrative and hybrid writing about military dictatorship contributes as a tool of literary militancy. By interweaving literary and historical discourse, this self-fictional report goes “against the grain” and provides a unique reading of the past of Argentina and Brazil under dictatorships. It looks at such episodes through the lens of the vanquished, which marks a style of writing characteristic of “post-fiction” times, in which literary work encompasses other discourses that meet nowadays concerns. Fuks' narrative presents different forms of resistance against attempts to erase the barbarities of such a past and warns the reader about possible forms of violence that might still pose a threat to the present. This “novel of affiliation” from contemporary Brazilian literature helps preserve the memory of this repressive regime by showing, through post-memory, the impacts of dictatorship and exile, inherited by the son of Argentine left-wing parents, who were victims of repression in this dark period of history. Thus, The Resistance serves as a revolutionary literary work and a narrative of an ambiguous pact marked by the dialogue between fiction and reality. It does not only seek to revisit the horrendous past of dictatorship, but rather critically re-elaborate it, as well as the inherited generational questionings, which fosters militant writing through the politicization of art as opposition to present and future fascism. To address such aspects, we rely on the theoretical postulates of Walter Benjamin, Paul Ricoeur, Márcio Seligmann-Silva, Jeanne Marie Gagnebin, Eurídice Figueiredo, Diana Klinger, Evando Nascimento, Anna Faedrich, Vladimir Safatle, Carlo Ginzburg, Marianne Hirsch, Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Juan José Saer,Antonio Candido, Carolina Silveira Bauer, Dominique Viart, Phillippe Lejeune, Serge Doubrovsky, Jacques Rancière, among other authors whose contributions are pertinent to our analytical purpose.