Literature and responsibility: the subject between orality and writing

Abstract

This paper aims to present some considerations on deconstructionism, its consequences for the perception of the relationship between subject and text – in which the relationship between orality and writing, and between language, reality and truth is implied – and for the subject’s own condition in what is conventionally called postmodernity. Stemming from theories that point to the need for an ethic discussion on literature, arguments are here deployed in favour of a reaffirmation of the subject’s subjectivity and autonomy before the world and its means, as a basis for a revision of the critical look at the literary phenomenon, at the language modalities and its relationship with life in society.