[en] &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Along with many other violations of elementary human rights, one of the worst forms of violence performed by the state during Brazilian civil-military dictatorship (1964-1985) was denying the victims of enforced disappearance&rsquo;s relatives the right to grieve their beloved ones, so that parents, husbands and wives could never properly give funeral, honor and bury their missing children or life partners. Such violence is highlighted in &ldquo;O vel&oacute;rio&rdquo;, by Bernardo Kucinski (2014). By suggesting some thematic connections with Kucinski&rsquo;s novel &lt;em&gt;K.: relato de uma busca&lt;/em&gt; and presenting theoretical and critical fortune by Jaime Ginzburg and Maria Zilda Ferreira Cury, we aim to demonstrate that this short story &ndash; just like Kucinski&rsquo;s testimonial work as a whole &ndash; is fundamentally a sort of literature that opposes resistance to the oblivion policy performed by Brazilian state, since the author, through a literary way, not only denounces the murder of the authoritarian regime&rsquo;s dissidents but also the interdiction of their relatives&rsquo; right to grieve their loss. Besides denouncing the deprivation of the right to grief, to life and to physical integrity, &ldquo;O vel&oacute;rio&rdquo; can be read as a loud alarm towards the risk of re-edition today, in contemporary Brazil, of authoritarian measures held by state in a very recent moment in national history which was never truly and entirely faced by Brazilian people as a nation &ndash; an alarm that has been proved to be urgent and inescapable and that can no longer be ignored considering the current political situation in the greatest South American country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[pt] &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Somando-se a tantas outras viola&ccedil;&otilde;es de direitos humanos fundamentais, uma das maiores viol&ecirc;ncias de Estado praticadas pela ditadura contra os familiares dos &ldquo;desaparecidos pol&iacute;ticos&rdquo; foi negar-lhes o direito ao luto; cassar-lhes o direito de velar, honrar e enterrar devidamente os seus mortos. Tal viol&ecirc;ncia &eacute; exposta no conto &ldquo;O vel&oacute;rio&rdquo;, de Bernardo Kucinski, integrante do livro &lt;em&gt;Voc&ecirc; vai voltar pra mim e outros contos&lt;/em&gt; (2014). Neste artigo, propondo interliga&ccedil;&otilde;es tem&aacute;ticas com o romance &lt;em&gt;K.: relato de uma busca&lt;/em&gt;, do mesmo autor, e agenciando aportes cr&iacute;ticos e te&oacute;ricos de Jaime Ginzburg e Maria Zilda Ferreira Cury, pretendemos argumentar que o referido conto &ndash; assim como, de modo mais amplo, toda a obra testemunhal de Kucinski na qual o relato se insere &ndash; constitui primordialmente literatura de resist&ecirc;ncia contra a pol&iacute;tica de desmem&oacute;ria executada pelo Estado brasileiro, na medida em que, pela via liter&aacute;ria, o autor denuncia n&atilde;o apenas o assassinato de dissidentes da ditadura civil-militar como tamb&eacute;m a interdi&ccedil;&atilde;o do direito humano ao luto infligida aos entes queridos de &ldquo;desaparecidos&rdquo;, como Roberto, protagonista incorp&oacute;reo do &ldquo;vel&oacute;rio&rdquo; narrado.&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;Al&eacute;m de den&uacute;ncia contra a priva&ccedil;&atilde;o do direito &agrave; vida e &agrave; integridade do corpo, o conto em apre&ccedil;o constitui um sonoro alerta para o risco de reedi&ccedil;&atilde;o, no Brasil contempor&acirc;neo, de pr&aacute;ticas autorit&aacute;rias comuns em um per&iacute;odo hist&oacute;rico muito recente e nunca inteiramente enfrentado pelos brasileiros como na&ccedil;&atilde;o &ndash; um alerta que se faz urgente e incontorn&aacute;vel no atual contexto pol&iacute;tico do maior pa&iacute;s da Am&eacute;rica do Sul.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;