História, memória e leituras do passado: o que as apropriações sobre Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns e o Cel. Brilhante Ustra no tempo presente podem nos ensinar?

Abstract

This article intends to discuss the tensions in the construction of memory and forgetfulness in Brazil about two emblematic characters in the period of the recent Brazilian military dictatorship: Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns and Cel. Brilhante Ustra. Based on the analysis of Folha de São Paulo newspaper about their deaths and tributes, the reader's appropriations are investigated, as well as the forms of reading from the past, the preservation of conservative discourses in our society and the difficulties which readers deal with representations of the past in their daily lives.