Antes do passado: uma aprendizagem

This work analyzes Antes do passado. O silêncio que vem Araguaia (2012) by Liniane Haag Brum, an account of the author’s search for traces life Cilon Cunha her uncle and godfather, PC B’s militant from 60’s until his disappearance in jungle 70’s. Cilon, different reasons, are victims State violence, which justifies reading passado light reflections on testimonial literature. Like many texts this type, report is made up fragments silences, but also, almost end, it strongly marked fears mistrust among those who lived with narrator-protagonist; she doesn’t even seem interested their stories suffering. The work’s hypothesis that Brum’s text can be read as a «training novel»: protagonist narrator looks family member, not listening to witnesses when focus speech deviates its objective which, transformed; only some extent, writing.