This paper analyzes the political space opened by the literary reading. Specifying literature as an attempt of understanding of problems related to the existence, we underline as the literary reading daily places in question our defended certainties and truths. For in such a way, we understand the relations between the language, the power and the resistance in the literary experience. We conclude that the literary reading is crossed by forms of resistance to the words of order that circulate of hegemonic form in our society, disposing a transformation in our affective and cognitive net.
political space; literary experience; reading; subjectivity