O NARRADOR TESTEMUNHA ENTRE O PASSADO E O PRESENTE NO RESGATE DA HISTÓRIA NO CONTO “OS SOBREVIVENTES”, DE CAIO FERNANDO ABREU

Abstract

This article is a reflection that has as object of analysis the short story "The Survivors", from the work "Strawberries moldy", by Caio Fernando Abreu, from the notion of narrator-witness of facts exed in the past and present in his discursive memory - the political experiences of the Military Dictatorship, in Brazil, in the decades of 1960 to 1980 - rescuing them so that they can be reorganized, attributing them due to meaning in the present before the loss of the ideals of the past. The methodology used is analytical-interpretative-reconstructive in nature of main (Caio) and secondary  bibliographic research (BENJAMIN, 2005; BOSI, 2002; CALVINO, 1979; ECO, 2001; GAGNEBIN, 2006; ORLANDI (2004), PÊCHEUX (2007), SELIGMANN-SILVA, 2003). This investigation is interesting as a reading of the revision of the characters' past and their generation when it articulates with the notions of history, trauma and testimony of the reference visited by perceiving in this an experience split from a narrative transfigured by the crosscut and fragmented narration. This attitude adhered to by the storyteller can establish relationships in which unresolved antagonisms return to the narrative as the immanent problems of the characters. In this sense, by making use of formal fragmentation, the author establishes a connection between form of composition and narrated content, preserving in the very structure of the literary work insoluble conflicts and social antagonisms. Thus, in some way, the work of Caio Fernando Abreu predicts its reader, both the immediate interpreting and dynamic interpreting, that in the course of the interpretation of the tale can attribute the meanings evoked in the marks left by the author, thus becoming a model reader.