Abstract
This article focuses on a journey of resilience in the wake of historical trauma through a reading of Palavras cruzadas (2015) by Guiomar de Grammont, a novel that unearths the shadows and clandestine phantoms of the Araguaia guerrilla, not only to remove them from silence but also to restore them in the individual and collective memory. Alternating narrative voices with distinct historical temporalities, the narrative is permeated by the conviction that the past that is not past jeopardizes the mourning process and riddles the present with unresolved guilt. The quest undertaken by the disappeared’s sister to exorcise the pain of his disappearance revives his journey to the heart of the verdant fortress and reveals his utopian ideal in the face of the contradictions of the armed struggle and the tragic fate of the guerrillas.
Keywords:
Palavras cruzadas; resilience; memory; utopia