A Place outside of space and time

Writing around utopia in Lisboaleipzig

Abstract

This work is a reading of Lisboaleipzig as a text that represents utopia in the impossibility of writing it. Our analysis will be made, firstly, around the theme of utopia in literature. Then it will focus on how that topos is present, or apparent, in the authors that Maria Gabriela Llansol joins in dialogue in this text: Fernando Pessoa/ Aossê and Johann Sebastian Bach. Between creation and destruction, the writting of Llansol seems to look for the rhythm that does not settle, enabling unforseen encounters in an imagined city.