This paper means to expose the way some universally accepted criteria which form the notion of country in the work Uma Viagem à Índia, by Gonçalo M. Tavares, are questioned. Since no context of pragmatic order is predetermined to the idea of country in this work, in a sense the external criteria usually employed to mark it out are cancelled. Since the annulment of such criteria is explicitly stated in the work, I will briefly map out these denials. The explanation of these denials resulting in a notion of country which is outside the very possibility of overdetermination by way of any meta-language, of any mystical fundament, one can argue that this implies a becoming that is intrinsic to such a notion, a metamorphic force which does not allow it to settle itself under any stagnant form. A concept, therefore, in constant restructuration, whose force is neither brute nor modelling but delicate and malleable – which rests upon an intelligent and complex intensity. Finally, this mutable notion of country will be articulated with the notions of time and space.