Sob os pés, meu corpo inteiro, de Marcia Tiburi: uma reflexão sobre distopias passadas, presentes e futuras

Abstract

Sob os pés, meu corpo inteiro, by Marcia Tiburi, is a novel that is set in a São Paulo placed in an indeterminate future. In this dystopian future, the authorial present becomes past, becomes history, enabling its analysis through a temporal displacement. However, while this future distances itself from the present by the acid rain that, for now, is not yet reality in the city that is known as "the land of drizzle", the familiarity of the walls covered in gray paint brings this imagined future closer to our present and our past. A game of approximation and distancing, of familiarity and estrangement, not only permeates this narrative, but constitutes its structure and provides the framing for its political content. Thus, this paper seeks to understand how future-present and familiarity-estrangement are articulated in the course of the novel, as well as its effects. To achieve this, we will trace parallels between the present narrative and the authorial present, we will look at the way in which the scars of the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship are shown in both moments, we will contextualize Tiburi's novel in a tradition of literature about the Brazilian dictatorship, and we will use dystopia as a way to access the reflexive content of this novel in regards to Brazilian's past-present-future, our historical experience and our political present.