Em camara lenta, by Renato Tapajos, 40 years: public self-criticism and survival

Em camara lenta, a 1977 novel, is a pioneer narrative in several ways. In it, the themes of self-criticism and survival are clearly defined - aspects that will later appear in several fictional or memorialist narratives of left-wing and former guerrilla militants who intend to tell their experiences with the repression by Brazil's military regime (1964-1985). This article analyzes the novel through the point of view of self-criticism (using the concept of confession, Foucault, 1988) and survival (Agamben, 2008).