Em busca de si: narrativa e resistência em 'Dois irmãos', de Milton Hatoum

Abstract

This article addresses the “narrative place” from the narrator of Two Brothers, published in 2000 by the contemporary writer Milton Hatoum, as well as reflects discussions about identity and erasures in narrative discourse in modern times. For that, theoretical-critical assumptions of Dalcastagnè (2012), Ginzburg (2012), Genette (1985), Prado (1981) among others will be used. It will be highlighted that, in the aforementioned novel, the negativity is manifested in the narrator’s story, demonstrating the social problems in the cultural formation of Brazil. Self-writing, displacement, and memory function as the aesthetic unit of the literary project constructed by the writer in question.