O ponto de fuga dos contos de Alice Munro

Abstract

This writing results of a reading and a conversation among a group of readers about the book “Runaway”, by Alice Munro. This paper has focused on the reading of the first story because it has induced my second reading of the book, which I prefer calling a hearing. It is curious that, as a hearing experience, the story brings me a visual analogy with the vanishing point. Thus, I understand this reading as a kinesthetic experience which has provided me thinking of Munro’s work of art from this optical perspective which consists on showing an apparently intersection among two or more lines that never touch one another properly. As a result, this paper presents how my meeting with Munros’ women has not the meaning of identification. It happens, otherwise, because of the differences. In addition, it is not a reading that chooses and overlaps an ideal, or a model of woman, neither is it an acknowledgement that confirms my judgments. Instead, it is a kind of a surrender to Munros’ adressings, an opportunity to look at the decisions and openings which her characters are made of.