abstract
This text approaches the debut novel of Cearense writer Tércia Montenegro’s, Turismo para cegos, which creates a perverse portrait of the condition of blindness. I propose that the cruelty that pervades all of the feelings in the relationships that the book portrays cannot be understood without taking into account the story’s “blind spots”. These blind spots are the consequence of a narration that happens outside of the primordial experience of the loss of the sight. Therefore, taking into account that the perspective determines what is narrated, what is described is not to be perceived as such, acquiring the status of truth, but rather as the result of a selection that contaminates everything that is said. Since the story is set in the field of the visual arts, what is at stake are the boundaries between the visible and the invisible. To analyze this set of situations, I closely follow the letter of the novel and Jacques Derrida’s vocabulary regarding the arts of the visible.
Keywords:
Tércia Montenegro; contemporary Brazilian literature; blindness; cruelty