The feminine writing in O Texto-Catarina

Abstract

The article proposes a reading of the book O Texto-Catarina, by Maria Gabriela Llansol, from the assumptions about “feminine writing”, by Lucia Castello Branco, articulated to the Llansolian figure of “nobody’s feminine” and to the operator of the same name, developed by Lucia Castello Branco, based on Llansonian figure and on Lacanian ideas about “letter” and “feminine” in psychoanalysis. The aim is also to investigate the articulation of “nobody’s feminine” with what Llansol would have suggested in Carta ao Legente (2000), when she wrote: “Finally, I only went through writing. A feminine word like me”. Taking into account, according to the author’s own words, that “a self isn’t enough for what is at stake”, we venture into the hypothesis that O Texto-Catarina advances towards what we could call, with Llansol, the “feminine writing of nobody”. It is expected, therefore, in a reading of Llansol and with Llansol, to produce an effect of “overprinting”, in which the relationship between affection, image and thought can be seen in a textual gesture offering also to Llansol, in reciprocity of what she does in the letter of July 4, 1998, “to Lúcia Castello-Branco, and her students”.