Between fiction and reality? war within and Boris Schnaiderman in the light of the reflection between memory, history and testimony literature

Abstract

This article investigates the relationship between history, memory and testimony literature in Boris Schnaiderman and his work, Guerra em Surdina. In this work, the author describes the experiences of Brazilian troops in Italy, through fiction. In order to understand why it presents itself as fiction, we investigate the author and the work. The first stage of the research is to present the contexts and the influence on the author's writing based on Dominick LaCapra (2015). In a second step, we reflect on the fictional aspect of the work with contributions from Walter Benjamin (2012) and Márcio Seligmann-Silva (2013), in order to understand the reasons for telling the shock experiences of Brazilians in the form of literature. In a third moment, we look through the analysis of key points of the work to understand its dynamics in the argument of the brutalization of man and the fight against the myth of war.