A ELABORAÇÃO DO TRAUMA E A LUTA CONTRA O ESQUECIMENTO EM "AINDA ESTOU AQUI", DE MARCELO RUBENS PAIVA

Abstract

This paper analyses the novel Ainda estou aqui, by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, published in 2015. Based upon the studies of Figueiredo (2017), Freud (2013), Ginzburg (2010), Halbwachs (1990) and Kehl (2010), we investigate how memory is the core of the book, because there is not only the remembrances of the Paiva’s family past, but also a recuperation of current history of the country, by means of trauma, left by the Brazilian civic-military dictatorship. The leitmotif of the narrative are not merely the memories of Marcelo as much as the information discovered during the years seeking his father’s death recognition, so Rubens Paiva’s disappearance has serious consequences in his family life. Likewise, there is the search to overcome the loss of the patriarch. The conclusion of this is clear: Brazilian dictatorship was not against Paiva’s Family, it was against the whole country.