Locus Solus e as máquinas potenciais de Raymond Roussel

Abstract

The article analyses the question of verisimilitude in Locus Solus, a book of a almost unknown French writer in Brazil, Raymond Roussel. Although his claim to create a literary work absolutely disconnected to the reality, it is possible to find in Roussel's texts machines and discoveries that can be described as “potentials”: they are able to make the reader believe in their possiblitity. This impression comes not only by the “circularity” of the Roussel's language that presents and explain the phenomenon, or because of the exhaustive descriptions and detailed explanations, some of the techniques also employed by the Realism (in this case, based on concrete realities), but mostly by their effective application on the text, which results on a communication of a feeling of truth.