Abstract:This essay presents a philosophical reflection about the circularity of Lygia Fagundes Telles' writing from the impersonality of the literary text postulated by the French post-structuralists Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida. As a model, an analysis is carried out of the metanarrativity in the short-story "Senhor Diretor", from the compilation Seminário dos ratos (1977). This text reveals the dissimulation game in which what is said is erased by the murmur of the unsaid. With this, the ambig… Show more
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