Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the short stories “Sobre a natureza do homem”, “Você vai voltar pra mim” and “Recordações do casarão”, published in Você vai voltar pra mim (2014aKUCINSKI, Bernardo (2014a). Você vai voltar pra mim e outros contos. São Paulo: Cosac Naify. ), by Bernardo Kucinski. The texts narrate events which occurred during the Brazilian military dictatorship, and this study hypothesizes that the plots contain an entanglement between state violence and gender-based violence. The interpretation is based on the perception that Kucinski’s short stories are manifestations of testimonial literature, that is, they establish a connection between historical context and literary content. From this perspective, it is possible to understand that, during the dictatorship in Brazil, the violence had a patriarchal face, and that literature is a powerful way to criticize the barbarism.
Keywords:
contemporary literature; literature and violence; literature and history