ABSTRACT
The critical revolution of the 1960s transformed the way in which writing was viewed. Under the influence of Saussure's structuralist theories of language, Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes formulated a notion of ecritureas a system of signs which explores the multiple possibilities of producing meaning through the plurality of structural, semantic and other relations which it generates within itself. There is a circulation of water which might be taken to represent the work of the writing and which, like water, assumes various forms, linked with the narration, with the telling, with the wish to say something or the absence of things said. Tears are in the first instance a means of establishing the limits of writing, signifying feelings without saying them, soundings taken inside the characters in such a way that they reveal themselves without the need to spell things out.
