The read: between expectation and memory

Abstract

In this paper, covering a reflective journey signalled by the indications running through the work of some prominent Portuguese authors, analyses the diverse ways of how the act of reading a text develops, by dissolving the voice of the author/poet within the experience of the reader. From the picture on the cover, until the title and the epigraph(s), the text announces and anticipates itself to the reader, creating an expectation that it will be consummated only through its full reading.

The aesthetic experience of the author, which is represented/recognized through the intertextual dialogue, in a progressive manifestation of its metamorphic memory, superimposes images which trigger an effect of hesitation and suspense on the reader.

Thus, the fictional world, synecdoche and symbol of a real environment, becomes a common ground to the writer and the reader, tangling them in a game of perceptions and recognitions, where their memories and their ghosts, revealed through a panoramic lens, come to the surface, making them accomplices or promoting their separation.