GUERRILHA DO ARAGUAIA:

PONTO DE VISTA E OLHAR INFANTIL NO CONTO “TREVAS NO PARAÍSO”, DE LUIZ FERNANDO EMEDIATO

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze the short story “Trevas no paraíso”, by Luiz Fernando Emediato, whose brief and meteoric literary career has mostly dealt with narratives about the dictatorship in Brazil in the 1970s. The short story in question, unpublished until 2004, was published in a volume organized by the writer Luiz Ruffato, who compiled Emediato’s narratives, drawing attention to their reading today. Written in the heat of events, since the Araguaia Guerrilla took place between the late 1960s and the mid-1970s, “Trevas no paraíso” features an adult who recalls a trip he took with his father during his childhood, when he became aware of his father’s political choices. It is therefore interesting to analyze the point of view of the adult who looks back on his childhood, as well as the echoes of the disappeared from the Araguaia Guerrilla. To this end, the theoretical and critical basis will be texts by Ruffato (2004), Pereira (2012), Mendonça (2015), Vecchi (2014), Mata (2015), among others.