Abstract
This essay presents a reading of the novel Never-Ending Youth (2017), by writer and journalist Urariano Mota, focusing on the complex relationships between the fictional fabric of the present and the memory of the post-1964 civil and military dictatorship. Based on critical theories involving the relationships between memory, politics, and aesthetics (Ricoeur, Assmann, Derrida, Rancière), and partly on the critical fortune on contemporary Brazilian fiction about the post-1964 civil and military dictatorship (Seligmann- Silva, Vecchi), the focus of this work is the critical and creative potential of the notion of community as resistance in different aspects and elements of Mota’s fictional narrative.
Keywords:
community; post-64 civil and military dictatorship; fiction; memory