O lago, o monstro, a ditadura

O olhar da criança em Clarice, de Roger Mello

Abstract

Abstract: The voices of children who witnessed the oppression and violence of the Brazilian dictatorial regime of 1964 find expression in "Clarice" (2018), by Roger Mello and Felipe Cavalcante. Set in Brasília, the juvenile narrative unveils the official discourses on the modernizing processes of the city's construction, which echo the persistence of authoritarianism during the dictatorship period. Through an elliptical narrative, the young protagonist narrator presents a defamiliarized perspective, focused on detail, on the regime's mechanisms of control and persecution. Therefore, the objective of this work is to analyze how the child's perspective, one among many other voices relegated by official history, challenges dichotomous and appeasing views of the dictatorship and contributes to questioning the memories forged by the regime. To this end, the studies of Eurídice Figueiredo (2017), Tânia Sarmento Pantoja (2018), Paulo César Gomes (2019), Maria Caterina Pincherle (2021), among others, will be considered.