Narrating a tragedy of the present: transgressions against the regime of practices in Daniela Arbex’s book Todo dia a mesma noite

Abstract

The paper examines excerpts from Daniela Arbex’s book Todo dia a mesma noite (Everyday the same Night) and interviews given by
the journalist about the process of investigating and writing the report on the Tragedy of Santa Maria. The purpose of the study is to understand the consonance of Arbex’s work with the notion of “books written by reporters,” signaling the critical potential of this writing as
part of a transgressive recognition of the present. Moreover, the notion of “critical event” is a reading key in order to understand its particularities when suffering is a significant operator in the narrative construction of the event.