Abstract
The paper examines excerpts from Daniela Arbex’s book Todo dia a mesma noiteNenhum (Everyday the same Night) and interviews given by the journalist about the process of investigating and writing the report on the Tragedy of Santa Maria. The purpose of the study is to understand the consonance of Arbex’s work with the notion of “books written by reporters,” signaling the critical potential of this writing as part of a transgressive recognition of the present. Moreover, the notion of “critical event” is a reading key in order to understand its particularities when suffering is a significant operator in the narrative construction of the event.
Keywords
books written by reporters; transgression; tragedy; narrative