O cerco rompido. (Leitura de O círculo, de Alina Paim)

The text aims to draw attention to a novel that has gone completely unnoticed by criticism, relegated to oblivion. Even though its author, a Northeastern woman, was known at that time for another aspect of her work, the more political one, the novel, published in 1965, has not yet received the reading worthy of what it raises. This may be explained by the engendering of the questions posed, both concerning the feminine condition, and the narrative and discursive relationships. I try, then, to underline the labyrinthine exploration of time, semantic games, metaphorical inflections, improprieties, metonymic employment, etc., which could have given it the prominent place of a vanguard narrative.