ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the novel Obsesivos dias circulares by Gustavo Sainz from the point of view of the narrator’s and characters’ attempts to control the text. It analyses the distribution of influence on the text between the first-person narrator and one of the key characters, and the changing locus of text control in the narrative line that includes Leticia. The chapter describes Terencio’s letters to Leticia and determines whether the text construct Leticia is created and manipulated through them. It addresses the subsequent shift and split of the locus of text control between the narrator and one of the characters. The narrative hierarchy therefore becomes fluid and the locus of text control shifts with each new narrator. The power struggle between the narrator and the initially overtly subordinate character takes on strong posthegemonic characteristics as the locus of text control shifts into the affective domain.
