Abstract
Considering that reading - under the hermeneutic perspective of Jauss (1993) - is, above all, an interpretive act, that privileges a central role of the reader, the present study aims at verifying procedural resources in the contemporary novel, Triz (2011), by Pedro Süssekind. In addition, it is intended to observe how the “effects of romanesque reading” (in the terms proposed by Calabrese, 2009) with the “drive to translate” concept (established by Ricoeur, 2011) are discussed in the novel, since the protagonist is a narrator, a reader, and a scholar that is dedicated to the translation of a novel by an invented Russian author. Being a very particular reader, in a way he annuls himself in a sort of “directed projection” (Gombrich, 2007).
Keywords:
reading; translation; projection; Triz; Pedro Süssekind