Adeus, cavalo, by Nuno Ramos: When the Body Vibrates and the Text Pulsates in the Act of Reading

Abstract

This article aims to follow analytically the process of an act of personal reading of a contemporary Brazilian literary work, Adeus, cavalo (2017), by writer and visual artist Nuno Ramos. The guiding lines that will lead the present reading act will be defined through the questioning of the idea of ​​paternity of the work, institutionalized literary criticism and reading as hermeneutic interpretation. The idea of ​​language as a binary representation will be contrasted with the idea of ​​language as a way of life, a vision consequently accompanied by one of reading as energy, a force in action which takes the experience of the reading body as the basis for the signification of the text, which is also due to the performative nature of the chosen text.