摘要
This article deals with the short story “Hiato”, part of the collection Tutaméia： Tereeiras estdrias by Joāo Guimarāes Rosa. When Tutaméia was released, it caused some discomfort for being too inventive. We will analyze the story in relation to the book proposal and the literary field when it was released. The short story presents an allegory of deform or an indetermination procedure that creates deformations in the form. “Hiato” is related to the author＇s concept of fiction as a representation that validates itself through the relations it establishes with cultural representations. These relations of representation with culture call attention to the significances that history aggregates to linguistic uses and, simultaneously, proposes meaninglessness of decisive representational moments. The effect is a critical reflection on the historicity of representations in culture which fiction makes undetermined as a future strategy.
