Documentos

Sobre a Clarice

In the cavity of the rock: the post-philosophy of Clarice Lispector

“In the cavity of the rock: the post-philosophy of Clarice Lispector” is a study published exclusively in electronic format and available only here. Upon reading it, readers are transformed into enchanted and frightened explorers, facing the Clarice cave– or literary work–which, by its very nature is ferocious, slippery, does not allow itself to be taken in its entirety. Divided into twelve chapters, Roberto Corrêa dos Santos passes through Clarice’s books and manages to not repeat what at this point is already known from what literary criticism of the last decades has endeavored to examine.

Clarice, she

“Clarice, She” is an electronic book composed of readings of five stories from Family Ties. Written by the critic Roberto Corrêa dos Santos, it holds the distinction of having been the first study on the Brazilian writer published in the academic field, in 1976, as a master’s thesis approved by the Department of Language Arts at the Pontifical Catholic University-Rio de Janeiro. From the analysis of the short stories “Preciousness”, “The Imitation of the Rose”, “The Crime of the Mathematics Teacher”, “The Dinner” and “Happy Birthday”, the author endeavors to draw a malleable profile of Clarice’s mode of thinking and writing, distinguishing them from a “direction of the gaze of writing”: feminine, masculine and familiar. 

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.