The metapoetic character of Hilda Hilst's prose: an analysis of the unconscious intruder narrator in "Fluxo "

This article proposes an analysis of the short story "Fluxo " by Hilda Hilst, using the theme of incommunicability as a guideline. Starting from Sontag's criticism on the interpretation, we consider unproductive a reading of Hilst's prose that seeks only to unravel the meaning of the narrative. Therefore, we first analyze the poetic characteristics, which will later be assimilated in an analysis of the narrative structure. Hilst's text is presented as a paradoxical strategy of constructing a demolition of interpretation through repetitions, self -explanations, suspensions and voids, and is always marked by a self-critical narrator. With this, we reassess the metapoetic aspect of Hilst's prose, understanding it as structured by an aporia between the creator-narrator and the creature-narrator. This character is revealed in the representation of the experience of literary writing, both in what it has of more objective and more abstract.