Llansol: the swan song

Abstract

The article proposes a reading of Maria Gabriela Llansol’s last book, Os Cantores de Leitura, as a great synthesis of her whole work, a swan song that brings together particular modes of writing (the fragment and its multiple structural and expressive possibilities), main figures like the philosopher Spinoza and a new idea of trans-human but not utopic community. Possible ways of interpretation of this epiphanic community are proposed: its search for a kind of Wisdom of the Yes, the meaning of multiple houses as centers of live energy and the central role of the notion of reading-as-canticle (reading of the text, the world and the Other) as the unifying factor of this community of singular voices united by the spiritual conversation of the «eternal return of the mutual».