| Summary: | <p>ABSTRACT<br />The paratactical style and the indeterminacies are literary strategies that resist<br />the conventional impulse of totalizing the elements projected by the text, because<br />instead of selecting the aspects of reality and subordinating the images and<br />perceptions into a hierarchy, the use of these techniques favors the juxtaposition<br />of multiple perspectives and the frustration of narrative closure. Thus, the use<br />of parataxis and indeterminacies in the collection of short stories Great Dream<br />of Heaven (2002), by the American author Sam Shepard, tends to challenge the<br />process of meaning production through the progressive erasure of narrative<br />“certainties”.<br />KEY WORDS: Postmodern, indeterminacy, parataxis, narrative, Sam Shepard.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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