O horror passado permanece vivo: acerca de Setenta, de Henrique Schneider

This essay seeks to bring to light the contemporary elements of Henrique Schneider’s novel Setenta [Seventy], published in 2019, trying to point out some of the central images that the book exposes. The novel deconstructs the appeased consciousness of a state of affairs led to its repetition in this Brazilwhere we are living in, a country at once oligarchic and very poor. From the literary perspective, this essay approaches the narrative construction of the novel and the philosophical and historical problems underlying it, dialoguing with some national and international references on the subject of ethical memory and testimony. It focuses on the fragmentary trait of the novel to deal with the horror experienced in the recent past in Brazil and Latin America, from a critical consciousness about the theme, pointing to the aesthetic need to deal with the trauma caused in Brazilian society during this period