Violência no cotidiano: ditadura militar, escrita e resistência em Os homens dos pés redondos, de Antônio Torres

Abstract

This article analyzes the novel Os homens dos pés redondos (1973), by the writer Antônio Torres, which has a plot with critical passages alluding to dictatorial governments and crimes committed by repressive systems, which characterizes this novel as archival dictatorship literature. Based on fiction, we point out marks of repression in the everyday life of the common citizen character and demonstrate the configurations made by the writer to record, through word art, artistic confrontation with the regime of exception. In the end, we make it clear that Torres' novel proposes reflections, proves possibilities of representing history through literature and illuminates the importance of literature as an instrument of symbolic resistance in the face of undemocratic regimes and their various forms of oppression.

Keywords: Antônio Torres; Censorship; Military dictatorship; Brazilian literature; State violence.