realism). Then, the texts themselves begun to decompose under the penetrating gaze of the reader (reader response), whose interpretation in turn concealed the influence of community and tradition (realism of culture). The constant factor is that while realism retreats, it always manages to keep something visible, objective, representable. The desire to contain the person, the text, the reader, but also the community, is futile. As I shall argue, there are two possible responses to this cycle: the