On the writing of ardent themes: wedding in a genre confluence

Abstract

This study will involve the Ardente texto Joshua (1998), from Maria Gabriela Llansol, that brings the figure of Teresa Martin, or Saint Therese of Jesus. It does not focus on her biography or the history of her scriptures, but on capturing knowledge and admiration in order to confront the “amorous art of living” with the aspiration of the ardent text: “the necessity of the body’s resuscitation”, establishing a close relation of changes and of confluences in different plans. From this text, a discussion about this scripture, that abolishes the paradigms already established and creates a new literary doing of our contemporary time, will be brought up.  With the support of the lectures of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and Gilles Deleuze, among others, it’ll be evidenced the author’s absence in this text of Llansol and its expression through a possible combination of flows. Not only ignoring the form of the diary writing, the author will also create the fiction of the diary of a writing - equally subverted, following Blanchot’s concepts. Moving away from the rigid form of the representative novel, the text of Maria Gabriela Llansol approaches to a “stutter” in its own language, that brings oscillation to the limits up to now considered between poetry and prose.