Clarice Lispector is one of the most important Brazilian writers of the 20th century.In her writings,she explores the limits of the Portuguese language and creates her own literary style.The article will map some of h...Clarice Lispector is one of the most important Brazilian writers of the 20th century.In her writings,she explores the limits of the Portuguese language and creates her own literary style.The article will map some of her aesthetic searches that are,at the same time,vital.The article is organized through two moments:a biographical one,in which relevant aspects of her life that will have an echo in her work are indicated;and another focused on her fiction writing,in which the aesthetic commitment of her books is highlighted.The Hour of the Star is the title of her latest novel,a title read by Helene Cixous as an anticipatory metaphor for her own death.We return to it as a trope,no longer to refer to its finiteness but to celebrate its opportune rereading outside Latin America.展开更多
Given the robust plurivocality that has characterized literature in Brazil since its colonial inception,and the eminently(and explicitly)receptive stance that many of its modem authors have adopted,I have structured m...Given the robust plurivocality that has characterized literature in Brazil since its colonial inception,and the eminently(and explicitly)receptive stance that many of its modem authors have adopted,I have structured my argument to follow two intersecting paths.Firstly,Clarice Lispector’s notion of“writing by ear”serves as a foundation for a renewed history of Brazilian literature,framed as a history of active listening.Secondly,the hope is to offer a Luso-Afro-Amerindian-Brazilian contribution to Latin American criticism,turning the semantic range of terms related to edges,margins,and borders into a more explicit semiotics of corporeality and performativity revolving around the ears and sound,echoes and silence,more generally.展开更多
文摘Clarice Lispector is one of the most important Brazilian writers of the 20th century.In her writings,she explores the limits of the Portuguese language and creates her own literary style.The article will map some of her aesthetic searches that are,at the same time,vital.The article is organized through two moments:a biographical one,in which relevant aspects of her life that will have an echo in her work are indicated;and another focused on her fiction writing,in which the aesthetic commitment of her books is highlighted.The Hour of the Star is the title of her latest novel,a title read by Helene Cixous as an anticipatory metaphor for her own death.We return to it as a trope,no longer to refer to its finiteness but to celebrate its opportune rereading outside Latin America.
文摘Given the robust plurivocality that has characterized literature in Brazil since its colonial inception,and the eminently(and explicitly)receptive stance that many of its modem authors have adopted,I have structured my argument to follow two intersecting paths.Firstly,Clarice Lispector’s notion of“writing by ear”serves as a foundation for a renewed history of Brazilian literature,framed as a history of active listening.Secondly,the hope is to offer a Luso-Afro-Amerindian-Brazilian contribution to Latin American criticism,turning the semantic range of terms related to edges,margins,and borders into a more explicit semiotics of corporeality and performativity revolving around the ears and sound,echoes and silence,more generally.
