A linguagem cinematográfica e a representação da violência no romance Em Câmera Lenta, de Renato Tapajós

Resumo

This work proposes an analysis of the novel Em câmera lenta, by the Brazilian writer Renato Tapajós, published in 1977, demonstrating how the novel uses a cinematographic writing to record the trauma and the violence unleashed by the civil-military coup in Brazil, as an allegory of a fascist epidemic in Brazilian society. Antonio Candido (1989), in “A nova narrativa”, refers to this novel by Tapajós as “the analysis of terrorism in advanced fictional technique” (p. 209). This is because the work deals with the events that took place between 1964 and 1973, during the civil-military dictatorship, and the consequences of these events that marked the country, in particular, the urban guerrillas that were unleashed as a way of combating the regime. Tapajós therefore bets on the strategy of approaching cinema through the fragmentation of the literary text, in which a spatiotemporal disruption occurs, along the lines of cinematographic montage, as a mark of a formal fragmentation in the work that reflects the fragmentation of the subject involved in the situation dramatic. We are interested in analyzing how, in this work, the fragmentation of language reverberates the social contradictions of the period, thus requesting an active reader, capable of “assembling” the fragments of the novel so that a critical reading can be established.