This paper proposes a reading perspective, in a contemporary view, of the memories of Pedro Nava, from the theoretical-critical proposals as developed by Paul Zumthor, Susan Sontag and especially Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. The concept of presence production, as created by this scholar, served as the bottom line for the analysis of the navian writing construction, which focused, in particular, on the 2nd volume of the memories, Balão Cativo, where, being the passage from childhood to adolescence, the formation of the author of the memories as an obstinate reader is emphasized. The focus of the text has been given under the reading point of view of youngsters and adolescents of today, pointing out their characteristic habits. This reader’s profile has been confronted with the peculiarities identifying the author of the dissertation as a reader who is also young. The multiple voices that interpenetrate her way of reading were responsible for the choice of the research object. Due to its potentiality to produce presence, Nava’s writing stimulates the abandonment of the passive reading, for he enables a perceptive-intellectual participation in the narrative, allowing the reading experiences to become closer, in a peculiar way to the author, to the interactive practices of the contemporaries. Under this view, the critical study of the materializing strategies used in Nava’s text construction constituted the core of the paper.