The class analyzes in detail the short story “Covert Joy,” from the volume of the same name published in 1971, by exploring layers of meanings that are simultaneously concealed and revealed by the language game. Envy, fantasy, power, and desire construct a secret and covert intrigue. Other short stories, such as “Remnants of Carnival,” “One Hundred Years of Forgiveness,” and “The Foreign Legion” complement the staged fictional figures. As will be seen, the writer is capable of disclosing latent and dangerous worlds in decisive rituals of initiation experienced by her characters.
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Clarice’s moments
In this video class, professor Nádia Batella Gotlib narrates through photographs the story of Clarice’s life.
Clarice lesson
In this video class, the critic José Miguel Wisnik traces parallel points among three important works by Lispector, pointing to a radicalization of the contact of being with matter.
José Miguel Wisnik, professor of literature, essayist and critic, teaches the class “Clarice lesson” especially for the Clarice Lispector website. Divided into seven chapters, Wisnik reads and comments on excerpts from Family Ties, The Foreign Legion, The Passion According to G.H.¸ tracing parallel points among these titles and relating them to other works, such as The Devil to Pay in the Backlands, by João Guimarães Rosa, and Clarice Lispector’s biography.
The Portuguese journalist Alexandra Lucas Coelho participates in the class with the reading of the story “Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady”.
“Clarice lesson” is an expanded recording from the conference given by José Miguel Wisnik during the first edition of the event Clarice’s Hour in 2011, at IMS Rio de Janeiro.
Clarice Lispector’s thinking literature
In this video class, working from the category of “thinking literature”, professor Evando Nascimento explains how thinking and writing are indissociable acts in the work of Clarice Lispector.
Based on the category of “thinking literature”, the professor, writer and essayist Evando Nascimento gives a class on the work of Clarice Lispector, focusing on how she relates the narrated elements and the reflections proposed in her texts.
In this talk from 2017, recorded exclusively for IMS Rio de Janeiro’s Clarice Lispector website, Nascimento turns his attention to beings separated from the “adult world”: children, animals and objects apparently without importance that, even so, are able to awaken the philosophy in Clarice’s work, joining the act of thinking to the narrative fact.
Zoo Series. Photo by João Castilho, 2017.