Resumen de "A Janela" e l'ambiguità del reale: invenzione e memoria nel racconto della scrittrice brasiliana Lygia Fagundes Telles
This essay aims at analysing the role of the window in �A Janela�, a short story written by Lygia Fagundes Telles published for the first time in the collection O Jardim Selvagem (1965) and then republished in Antes do Baile Verde (1977).
In this short story an old man returns to a room only to see the window that reminds him of his son who is dead. His reminiscences, revealed through a dialogue with the woman who lives in the room, modify the narrative structure: the transition from the present to the past discloses an introspection that makes the narration ambiguous and leads the woman � and also the reader � to suspect that the man is insane.
In this way the text results in a Chinese box structure: �A Janela� contains its miniature, that is, the window which, by causing reminiscences of the man, turns out to be a sort of emblem of that �creative process� that, through the intersection of memory and fiction, defines Lygia Fagundes Telles' literary works.
Starting from the analysis of metaphorical and symbolical meanings ascribed to the window as �subject-object� of the narration, this essay will also place emphasis on the combination of memory and fiction as one of the main stylistic mark of the writer's works in order to interpret �A Janela� as a sort of mise en abîme of the whole literary production of Lygia Fagundes Telles'.
