Book, Lector in fabula[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. The questions that Umberto Eco poses in this work are, in appearance, very simple, but, in reality, fundamental for a theory of reading a fictional text. In fact, the basic questions underlying his analysis are: Who is actually the reader of a fable? What is your role? How and to what extent does your interpretation come into this decoding? However, to answer such questions, the reader of Lector in Fabula resorts to all the elements provided by modern semiotic research and, above all, to the proposal for the act of reading that Roland Barthes embodied in the expression 'pleasure of the text'. For, in truth, for Eco, no less than for the French critic, it is a matter of declaring not only 'what' a text provides, but also 'why' what it provides is inextricably linked to the enjoyment of the actualized object. In the systematic and persistent pursuit of these targets, 'Lector in Fabula' could not remain solely on the abstract plane. And, without a doubt, Umberto Eco's application of the notions and structures he raises in theoretical discourse is masterful, turning his focus to the microanalysis of a concrete example. It is clear that Alphonse Allais' report fits perfectly, due to its composition and style, to the analyst's purpose; but what results from this critical incision is a notable clarification, transparent not only to the student of these matters, of how the textual machine is organized and works, what game occurs between 'the said' and 'the unsaid', what is drawn in the interstices and in the blank spaces and what are the possible developments made, in the form of 'ghost chapters', by the receiver-reader, that is, by virtue of which strategies and which reading encyclopedias a text satisfactorily fulfills its role , realizing itself as a fictional universe.