La mirada oblicua o el hallazgo de lo visible

Abstract

This work seeks to explore the literary manifestations of the oblique gaze. A gaze that implies something that the eye is not capable of perceiving, what remains beyond the visible than what is visible. This is what escapes from a synthesis, what enables the authentic otherness. From here may comes José Saramago’s interest for an oblique gaze, and the interest in this work to explore the possibilities of an oblique novel. This gaze as an exercise of thought, of memory, and the act of writing that goes back to what the Western eye has already seen, so as to remove the inertia of an over visualization.