In order to understand the role of modern novel and its attributes during the 60th decade, this study aims to analyze critically the writing function for an author that belonged to a group of novelists whose objective laid in the field that they should find new ways of thinking about art, literature, and writing. Those writers intended to discuss a kind of experimentalism that would be able to create new text forms, leaving the structure of old novel into the past centuries. In this way, Alain Robbe-Grillet`s theories on the French nouveau roman, Mikhail Bakhtin`s discourse representation, Jacques Derrida`s arguments towards writing will be put into dialogue with the modern Portuguese author Augusto Abelaira. This thesis will also arise analysis towards the reader`s function and the importance of writing in the literary and in the historical context of the 60th decade in Portugal.