Literature and politics in Bernardo Kucinski

Abstract

In 2011 Bernardo Kucinski published his novel K., in which the lead character is a father whose daughter is missing, as a victim of the State violence during Brazil’s military dictatorship. Eight years later, in 2019, he published A nova ordem, a narrative in which the country is ruled by a totalitarian regime. The purpose of this essay is to compare both works, discuss differences between the two books, and thus understand their specific approaches to authoritarianism they offer.