The following article proposes a reading of the story "La Intrusa" by J.L. Borges from the perspective of the production of meaning, making use of some concepts related to textual linguistics such as microstructure and thematization, macroact and presupposition, implicit reader and intertextuality; as well as some notions of narratology, especially those referring to the levels of history, narration and narration. The analysis also proposes a characterization of the literary text as a space of fusion between the particular and the general.