Deconstruction, or Poststructuralism, is a literary criticism that emerged from Structuralist criticism through the work of Jacques Derrida from 1930-2004. This is not considered to be a fully developed critical method, but it allows deconstructionist critics to play with language and meaning. Deconstruction states that the world is not one dimensional and is open to many different interpretations. The ideas of the signifier and signified are important concepts to understand for this theory. This is brought to attention by Ferdinand de Saussure who discovered how words have evolved and developed in literature. Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vladimir Propp, Roland Barthes, and Jonathan Culler are other important contributors of Deconstruction criticism to look at. These theorist looked at binary oppositions and the way in which opposites make meaning. For literature it means looking into how stories have opposite meanings and interpretations.
El cuento Un diario de un Creador de Secretos es un cuento sobre una sociedad donde los controles gubernamentales toda la información de la población. Los personajes centrales Maite y Gaston viven en una sociedad donde no hay secretos. Mientras la gente cree que no hay secretos en este sociedad es posible que el gobierno esta cambiando la información dentro las mentes de los ciudadanos. La idea que no es obvio dentro la historia es que la gente saben porque no hay secretos en sus vidas, pero el gobierno tienes razones secretos. El mundo de Gaston y Maite parece ser sin secretos, pero es posible que hay muchos secretos en su sociedad.