ABSTRACT
Invisibility has less to do with romantic fascination than with the shaping of a landscape of subjectivity, constantly crossed by the world's fluxes, in response to the excess of images. To be invisible in a consumerist society where everything and everybody is or must be visible, including, to an ever-greater extent, LGBT representations—invisibility could be a way of making a difference through time, space, and subtlety. The drama of the ephemeral concludes with reference to the sexual, in the voice of Marcelo: "the main characteristic of today's bicha is the constant search for his own style". Stella Manhattan is a novel of lost illusions, of frustrated development or perhaps of a contemporary impossibility of satisfactorily articulating the ephemeral and the durable in intersubjective relations. Stella's drama is one of sentimentality in an epoch when sentiment is rationalized with an incredible quick inevitability.
