Do conto à cor: uma legência com o sexo de ler de Llansol

Abstract

Maria Gabriela Llansol writes books of an unclassifiable genre. Her texts propose questioning the limits of language and the way reality is portrayed by the interpretation of facts. The teaching of literature by means of Llansol s work may be understood as an artistic and aesthetic experience. Llansol proposes a relation which she called legência (possibilities of reading). Legente (active reader) is an active person in the practice of reading. The text is understood as a body which affects others, especially the legente. Sexo de Ler (reading sex) is the organ through which legência occurs. Textuantes (writer/reader) are those who affect each other by means of their sexo de ler. Thus, the author builds sensations, mostly images, by means of a light scheme which is based upon the traditional conception of colors. The use of colors in Llansol must be considered in her ability to create a great deal of her atmosphere. This effect may be compared to the legend effect existing in fairy tales in their medieval version. The colors which Llansol uses more recurrently are red and green, as well as contrasts of clear and dark hues. Llansol s text is a body of affects and that is the reason why this work uses, in the essay chapters, a language which intends to get closer to the author s. This dissertation relates the Theory of affects, by Spinoza, to the conception of body of the text. To Llansol, every understanding will always be a creation and, then, ta1lking about the Llansolian text is never talking about the text only, because the text can only be felt by means of our sexo de ler. Thus, the text is always in a process of reading and interpretation which is singular and that depends on the legente to acquire meaning and life.