This article examines the metaphor of reading and new reading in Guimarães Rosa's last book, Tutameia (1967), with a reading of the story "Desenredo". In the first part we discuss some theoretical issues concerning the place of the reader according to Wolfgang Iser and then show the singular place of the reader - metaphor of the activity of reading and fiction of an enunciative situation.
Reading; Guimarães Rosa; Tutameia; Aesthetics of Reception