ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the first and longest of gay stories, as it is that Silviano Santiago concentrates his subtlest ideas regarding homosexuality, exile and consumer culture. Homosexuality in Santiago's work undergoes sublimation from the diegetic plane of discussion in which it is anchored in Stella Manhattan to the mute plane of immanence from where it operates in 'Autumn leaves'. The stories in Keith Jarrett no Blue Note, and 'Autumn leaves' in particular, present the reader with the challenge of working out who is narrating the story. In Stella Manhattan Santiago fractured the monolithic authority of the 'eu' by revealing its inability to accommodate the bricolage or mediation of 'hinged' discourses which give rise to the individual; this being most notably the case with Stella/Eduardo/Bastiana. In Stella Manhattan the dialogic split could be explained away as the justifiably elaborate simulation of the tension between the authorial ego and superego engaging in the act of literary creation.
