Abstract

SKLIAR, Carlos. Writing and Reading about identity, difference and loneliness. LTP [online]. 2016, vol.34, n.66, pp.13-29. ISSN 2317-0972.  https://doi.org/10.5965/0102-387Xv34n662016029.

Perhaps writing is the only reason for writing and reading. There should be no reasons for having to do it. We should not write or read to take a stand in the world nor should we write to entitle others to take their stands. Writing and reading should be guided by love and lovelessness of the words, by passion and restlessness of the words, attraction and repulsion of words. If writing and reading are no longer what they used to be, maybe we should wonder whether it is even worth thinking about what writing used to be (and what reading was) now that it is no longer the same, or what writing is (and what reading is) now. In this paper, with Manoel de Barros, Clarice Lispector, Fernando Pessoa and Stefan Zweig, writing (and reading) is brought closer to the thought of identity, difference and loneliness.

Keywords : Writing; Reading; Identity; Difference; Loneliness.

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