Crossing parallels: A reading of Caio Fernando Abreu’s “Sargento Garcia”

Abstract

The article undertakes the analysis of a text from the perspective of the homoerotic gaze. In terms of language, homoeroticism expresses a poetic look through suggestive forms, the dance of gestures and in the possibility of the encounter. The translation of these deictics for fiction is the ultimate step taken by Caio Fernando Abreu: his desire for expression through words. The present rereading of his text seeks to take advantage of the image of an impossibility: the meeting of two parallel lines, in order to speak about the limitless possibilities of interpretation which a text raises.