O diálogo de alteridades na escritura de A paixão segundo G.H., de Clarice Lispector

Abstract

The current thesis aims to analyze the novel A Paixão segundo G.H. (1964) by Clarice Lispector. From the hypothesis that the narrator-character, identified only by GH, in reporting her via crucis of existence also reports, through a plurissignificative speech, her experience as a writer-sculptor. In her kind of writing, she uses metaphors that can be read and compared with the investigative act of writing and effects produced by ephiphanic writing. The G.H. character, after becoming conscious of her existence, is able to report it and give it the form of ephiphanic experience. She needs the writing form to understand, arrest and formalize the reality. Writing, for her, is an attempt to give shape to what she had experienced (the cockroach) and by writing (form), to revive and give it the illusion of poetic sense. G.H. talks about the passion in her own point of view, the reason for why we analyzed the narrator s speech as a loving writing of I(s), loaded from a pathos of an I who writes. The alterity experience can be seen in contrast of G.H. to the other, represented in the figure of Janair, the cockroach, the imaginary interlocutor, whom she calls to work together in her sculpture-writing. The exotopic experience and the contact with the other s view provided the ephiphanic moment lived by the authorheroin, therefore, the alterity and epiphany are functionally interlinked and interdependent. But only the experience of writing can promote ethical and aesthetic completion to the experience. The subject approached in A Paixão segundo G.H. was borned in the tension between the saying and the how to write, materializing the drama of language into act sculpture, the writing experienced by GH into an act of waiting for a final form. The first chapter approaches the narrative as a writing in its formal specificity. The second chapter deals with the experience by Clarice Lispector s alteritys writing in discordance with the content, transformed by the sculptural form, in which the whole heroin-author-reader narrative process is coparticipated by her. This chapter still approaches the issue of aesthetics epiphany of form-content, generated by ephiphanic time that wins the form-content desired by heroin-author and by the author-sculpture of the alterity reported artistic form. The narrator-character emerge on the meaning and limits of the poetic word, therefore, the G.H s report is a pure concrete manifestation of form of an aesthetic consciousness. We stress that, for analyzing the effects produced by the loving speech, we passed over the works of Roland Barthes and ideas raised by the critical word and translator of Leyla Perrone-Moises