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I<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

At the center of the short story \u201cThe Smallest Woman in the World,\u201d there is a reference to a photograph that was allegedly published in a report about an explorer\u2019s expedition to Equatorial Africa in the \u201cSunday papers.\u201d 1<\/a><\/sup> This information could be taken as a fictional invention, but the existence of a supposed report is reinforced by \u201cThe Useless Explanation,\u201d a text published in the \u201cBack of the Drawer\u201d of The Foreign Legion<\/em> (1964) about the genesis of the stories that make up Family Ties<\/em> (1960), the author\u2019s previous volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe Smallest Woman in the World\u201d reminds me of Sunday, springtime in Washington, child falling asleep on my lap in the middle of an outing, the first heat of May—while the smallest woman in the world (an item read in the newspaper) was intensifying all this in a place that seems to me the birthplace of the world: Africa. (p. 628)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWashington,\u201d \u201cspringtime,\u201d \u201cSunday,\u201d \u201citem read in the newspaper,\u201d plus the specification, given by the short story, that the photo of Little Flower had appeared in a \u201cthe color supplement of the Sunday papers:\u201d these were four or five clues that, though few in number, were significant and that we therefore decided to follow. The \u201cuseless explanation\u201d provided a spatiotemporal marker, situating Clarice\u2019s reading of the news item in Washington, that is, according to what is said in N\u00e1dia Gotlib\u2019s biography, between 1952 and 1959. Her correspondence with Fernando Sabino allowed us to reduce the possible time frame of the supplement\u2019s publication to the interval between March 1955, when the writer confirmed the receipt of new short stories that Clarice had sent him, which did not include \u201cThe Smallest Woman in the World,\u201d and July 12, 1956, when she had already mentioned it to her friend. Regarding the report\u2019s outlet, once the date and city were established, it seemed most likely that the report had been published in one of the two biggest newspapers at the time: the Washington Evening Star<\/em> or The Washington Post and Times-Herald<\/em> (the result of the 1954 merger between the Times-Herald<\/em> and the Post<\/em>). Another widely circulated newspaper at the time, The Washington Daily News<\/em>, did not circulate on Sundays. Once the search had been narrowed, it was possible to find, in a \u201ccolor supplement of the Sunday papers,\u201d as the short story says, The American Weekly<\/em>, inserted in the September 4, 1955 edition of The Washington Post and Times-Herald<\/em> (that is, not in the spring month of May, as the \u201cexplanation\u201d says, but in the summer), the text, accompanied by a photo, \u201cSmallest Woman in the World,\u201d credited to Philip Drew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image 1. Philip Drew, “Smallest Woman in the World”, The American Weekly, 4 de setembro de 1955.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

First of all, the discovery of The<\/em> American Weekly<\/em> report revealed that Marcel Pr\u00eatre, besides being a character in the story, was an actual historical figure, and that the expedition was not (only) a fictional creation of Clarice Lispector, as was often imagined. The very photograph mentioned in the story, a fictional photo to which the characters in the apartments react in the middle of the story, at one of the  most well-known moments in the narrative, encountered its real counterpart, as can be seen in the facsimile reproduction, which features a huge photo of the \u201csmallest woman in the world\u201d (called \u201cLittle Flower\u201d) that spanned almost the entire height of the newspaper (which measured around 50 cm), thus making her representation correspond to the supposed actual height mentioned in the report, as if it were life-size, exactly as the story affirm edited .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discovery of the report on the \u201csmallest woman in the world\u201d sounded paradoxical from the very start. On the one hand, it provided a fact to discuss in the short story, constituting the proof that the narrative was based on an actual newspaper article which gave rise to the characters (the report is organized around the meeting between Marcel Pr\u00eatre and Little Flower, and intermediated by the characterization of the \u201cLikouala\u201d people) and even the very title of the story, \u201cSmallest Woman in the World.\u201d Moreover, it became clear not only that Clarice had been impacted by a news item, as one might assume, but also that the writing of the story took place after handling the newspaper: it was the fruit of hands-on work with the report, including passages that are practically literal translations, thus making it certain that she had kept the Sunday supplement and not simply read the article and \u201cbeen inspired.\u201d That is, the discovery of the report offered material data for research, it being possible to palpably see there the genesis of Clarice\u2019s fiction in \u201creality:\u201d a field of analytical possibilities opened up about the type of transformation, of refraction, to which she submitted this real, concrete report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, this \u201creal\u201d material, which allegedly gave origin to the short story, at the same time seemed to be a hoax. Passages that in the story previously sounded like an exaggerated caricature of journalistic discourse now showed themselves on occasion to be close translations of the text. Everything in the report\u2014the affirmation about the Pygmy woman\u2019s size, its tone, its exoticizing rhetoric\u2014sounded false. While the article was real, in the sense that it had effectively been published and that Clarice Lispector\u2019s \u201cuseless explanation\u201d was truthful, its content nonetheless seemed inconsistent and hardly credible. Our early research on the short story\u2019s origins thus unfolded into a second one, on the origin of that origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A piece of information from Raquel Wandelli Loth\u2019s doctoral dissertation (2014), at which we arrived when searching for the news item or source text for the short story, would aid us in this second endeavor. In a footnote, Loth raised the hypothesis of a connection between the \u201cFrench explorer\u201d in Clarice Lispector\u2019s story, Marcel Pr\u00eatre, and the Swiss writer Marcel Georges Pr\u00eatre, author of Calibre 475 Express<\/em>, a book of \u201cadventure stories\u201d originally published in 1954 that allegedly contained the account of episodes occurring \u201camong the Pygmy peoples in Africa.\u201d At first, while researching the report, the indication that the Marcel Pr\u00eatre in the story was probably not an invented name revealed itself to be essential, for we could include an additional keyword to use in our digital archive search. But now, in addition, in this second stage, it was the book actually that presented itself as an important source for historical research on the report\u2019s origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we had somewhat expected, in Marcel Pr\u00eatre\u2019s book we found an account of an expedition to the heart of the forest, into regions \u201cstill unexplored in Equatorial Africa,\u201d where there allegedly occurred an encounter with Pygmy peoples, including a group of especially small stature. The report published in The American Weekly<\/em> thus spoke of the same expedition recounted in the book, and the photo used also came from it. 2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image 2. Marcel Pr\u00eatre, Calibre 475 Express<\/em>, Paris: \u00c9ditions de la Pens\u00e9e Moderne, 1955, p. 32. 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nonetheless, upon finishing the book, what a surprise it was to discover that there was no account whatsoever of \u201cLittle Flower\u201d or a pregnant Pygmy woman, and that the photograph, though reproduced in the book, was not unfolded in any narrative passage, such that the encounter between these two characters (the explorer and the pregnant Pygmy woman, the smallest woman in the world), which organized the entire American narrative, was absent from the pages authored by Pr\u00eatre. At this point, of course, despite presenting itself as a documentary travel account, backed by abundant photographic material (the French edition was part of the \u201cLa Marche du monde\u201d collection, an explicitly non-fiction series), the book, with its array of unacceptable affirmations (which were at once patently false and offensively racist) 3<\/a><\/sup> , immediately lent itself to be read as a hoax. Yet it was not only this sort of ghostly absence of \u201cLittle Flower\u201d that was strange, an orphan image with a name and history. For even that which The American Weekly<\/em> report and the book had in common, the sensationalist account of Marcel Pr\u00eatre\u2019s \u201cdiscovery\u201d of the \u201csmallest pygmies in the world,\u201d was not really the same: the would-be ethnographic descriptions of the supposed people did not coincide with each other, constituting openly incompatible versions (to cite only one example, the Likouala, menacing cannibals in the book, come to be victims hunted and eaten by the Bantu). It was as if the \u201cfact\u201d that we had brought to light lost consistency the more it was investigated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the discovery of a new document made the factual origin of Clarice\u2019s narrative even less firm: even before publishing the book, Pr\u00eatre had already announced his \u201cscientific find,\u201d with great fanfare, in a report for the Swiss newspaper L\u2019Impartial<\/em> on July 19, 1954. 4<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image 3. L’Impartial<\/em>, de 19 de julho de 1954.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And, once more, adding a new piece (the earliest variant that we located) to the chain of texts that would culminate in the short story only opened up new rifts between the versions. The first glaring contradiction was spatial: the expedition, which the Swiss newspaper article located \u201cin the confines of Spanish Guinea,\u201d migrated in the book to the border of Portuguese Guinea, two \u201cGuineas\u201d at distinct points, particularly distant from each other, on the map drawn by European colonial empires. What might have been taken as a mere slip, a confusion between the names, no longer seemed casual in the face of another alteration, a particular difference in the version, which indicated a deliberate rewrite: in the Swiss report, Pr\u00eatre recounts his encounter with pygmies measuring 45 cm; in the book, however, that same paragraph\u2014which describes the first time that he catches sight of the people\u2014is reused almost verbatim: the same source text, now only edited to raise their stature to 75 cm, as if to make the finding more credible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as if the contradictions between the documents in this chain were not enough, they appeared even within a single link. The fact is that the work Calibre 475 Express<\/em> itself, when examined more closely, turned on itself. There were, for instance, inconsistencies between the book\u2019s editions: in the French edition, the one that we initially accessed, the caption for the photo of the pregnant Pygmy woman informed, as we have seen, that she measured 48 centimeters; in the Swiss edition, his nationality, the same image for its part reappeared with a practically identical caption but with a significant alteration: the pregnant Pygmy woman was allegedly now \u201cmore or less 80 cm in height.\u201d It is tempting to assume that, far from home, Pr\u00eatre allowed himself to make affirmations that he saw himself obliged to attenuate when facing his own compatriots, as if an eventual skeptical reception of the report, which had been announced with a great fuss in L\u2019Impartial<\/em>, had already led him to moderate his bluster in his own country. Yet another complication comes to be added to all this. Strictly speaking, referring here to \u201cPr\u00eatre,\u201d as we have been doing, is not so simple: Calibre 475 Express<\/em>, though bearing Marcel Pr\u00eatre\u2019s name, was not written by him but by a ghostwriter, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Dard. As one discovers in Dard\u2019s biography, authored by Fran\u00e7ois Rivi\u00e8re, the then-young French writer received from Pr\u00eatre a commission \u201cwhich consisted of rewriting a collection of hunting memoirs in Africa.\u201d \u201cThe novelist devoted himself to the task as best he could, at times carried away by his overflowing imagination.\u201d In another twist in this story, Dard, this young man at the beginning of his career who had received Pr\u00eatre\u2019s notes and the assignment to turn them into a book, would later become one of the most commercially successful and prolific French writers of the 20th<\/sup> century, a huge publishing phenomenon. Nothing seemed to hold up; not even the book\u2019s authorship could be trusted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps only the photograph would remain, in its indexicality. The fact is that, repeating the same script, a newfound item would show that not even the photo was out of reach of the falsifications accumulating around this episode: an image held in the Fonds Marcel Pr\u00eatre, a personal archive donated to the University of Fribourg, compromised that which had been presented as his only \u201cmaterial proof\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image 4. Arquivo pessoal de Marcel Pr\u00eatre conservado na Biblioteca cantonal e universit\u00e1ria de Friburgo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As can be seen, the image that Marcel Pr\u00eatre used as the basis for the successive versions of the episode was a crop of a larger photograph. While the cropped version that is present in Calibre 475 Express<\/em> and that he circulated in the press featured a close-up, drawing our attention to the two figures and reducing the background to a vague suggestion of an indefinite forest, the original photograph from which it was taken, for its part, restores a context that had been conveniently suppressed, as it was incompatible with the narrative in the heart of the forest. 5<\/a><\/sup> The light-colored strip on the left, which in the cropped version went unnoticed due to its illegibility, becomes recognizable as a concrete construction, while the vague background forest, previously flattened by the loss of the vanishing point, comes to show itself, with the added depth, as roadside vegetation, in which we see a dog in the foreground and, further back, a group of people walking: the wide-angle shot unveils a world completely different from the one fabricated by the account. And there was not only this reframing of the original photograph. A minor yet revealing detail indicates that care was taken to retouch the image in order to adjust it to the idea of an \u201cexplorer on a mission:\u201d while in the cropped photo reproduced in Calibre 475 Express<\/em> he appeared wearing a dark, closed-toe, sober shoe, a work shoe, for expeditions, the original photograph shows a lighter, more casual, modern-style footwear, which demonstrates that the image had been patiently hand-painted and that, in effect, not even its condition as an index remained intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

II<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

It could reasonably be said that this whole movement in which we have piled refutation upon refutation may seem a bit redundant; it was already possible to glimpse the hoax from the start, and, recalling the response of a renowned physicist, when faced with a falsehood, one refutation should suffice; the hundredth rebuttal must sound excessive. The issue, however, is not simply to reiterate ad nauseam that the fraud was fraudulent, but also to examine its form, which allows for a better understanding of the type of operation that Clarice\u2019s fiction performs upon this series of colonial images and discourses. One of the things that this movement allows one to glimpse, although it is not possible to develop it more extensively here, is that the article that arrived in Clarice\u2019s hands, from which she constructed her short story, revealed itself to be not only invented, but also a stratified construction, as if it had been produced through different layers of fabrication, of narrative arrangement and rearrangement. \u201cThe Smallest Woman in the World,\u201d Lispector\u2019s short story, is, in part, a reproduction of Philip Drew\u2019s report, which was already a reconfiguration of the book Calibre 475 Express<\/em>, which, in turn, was a rewrite, by the professional novelist Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Dard, who would become famous, of the notes of another, of Marcel Pr\u00eatre. 6<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also note that it does not concern saying that in this whole web of lies there is no truth at play, but rather shifting the issue. These statements certainly lie, as a news item about a supposed, inexistent Pygmy people or about a certain imaginary Africa, but they do not lie by any means. There is a repertoire of recognizable forms, rules, a grammar at play, such that they still give news of something, of a certain regime of representation, a backdrop that makes these discourses possible (publishable, credible). Reference to the work of V. Y. Mudimbe is unavoidable here, in the sense that this chain of texts which will culminate in the short story could, in almost exemplary fashion, occupy the shelves of what the philosopher will call the \u201ccolonial library:\u201d \u201ca body of knowledge generalizing conceptual rules, some historical paradigms and a political project.\u201d Another way to formulate it is that, faced with a \u201cfabulation,\u201d it is less interesting to question the truth of its objects (which we know to be false) than to investigate the fantasy that produced it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is worth adding that this factoid, the fabricated story of the supposed Likouala pygmy people, would furthermore have an afterlife. The same photo and account would once again return in the 1980s in a book by Bernard Heuvelmans, the founder of the pseudoscience of cryptozoology, in a text that was skeptical of the claims in Calibre 475 Express<\/em>, but that still analyzed them armed with the conceptual machinery of \u201cscientific racialism.\u201d Finally, in a recent 2007 edition of a French encyclopedia, the photograph reappeared to certify the supposed \u201cdiscovery\u201d in a sensationalist manner (as an \u201cexclusive document\u201d), a reappearance whose absurd credibility would astonish Dasen and Minder, authors of a brief article on Calibre 475 Express<\/em> who had accompanied part of the uncontrolled circulation of the photograph and the story, as if the initial hoax had continued, much later, to produce new volumes for the \u201ccolonial library\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image 5. Reapari\u00e7\u00e3o tardia da fotografia. Monnestier, Les Monstres. Histoire encyclop\u00e9dique des ph\u00e9nom\u00e8nes humains<\/em> (2007).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Once this proliferating series to which the short story is linked has been revealed, one approach would be to survey the underlying similarities that Mudimbe\u2019s concept seeks to apprehend and to question the extent to which \u201cThe Smallest Woman in the World\u201d might also be considered as yet another volume in that library, to question the narrative\u2019s \u201ccolonialism.\u201d The issue of the narrative\u2019s colonialist assumptions, which was raised in a certain way by Daphne Patai in an important essay on the story 7<\/a><\/sup>, is pertinent and delicate. Nonetheless, as difficult as simply denying it would be the alternative of treating Clarice\u2019s narrative as an undifferentiated element in this series, as if it were equally difficult not to recognize that there is also something of another nature and voltage occurring in the story, linked in part to its fictional condition, a specificity that would also be necessary to investigate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

III<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Thus far, we have privileged the presentation of this material surrounding the short story, in the extent to which it may serve as a starting point for varied research. In the remainder of this essay, however, we will attempt, albeit in a rough outline, to consider the singularity of Clarice\u2019s text in this series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The piece that Clarice effectively had before her was the report in The American Weekly<\/em> (Image 1). The image that illustrates it is the edited version of an already edited photo, which will radicalize the decontextualization of the first intervention: the background is eliminated, the figures separated, and their relative sizes inverted. Needless to say, if the \u201cPygmy woman\u201d appears enormous, it is like an exoticizing procedure: precisely to be \u201ctotally contained\u201d by the newspaper, she would supposedly be life-size. The newspaper\u2019s decision is to place something like a duplicate of her entire body, exposing it to the reader\u2019s exoticizing gaze. Marcel Pr\u00eatre, for his part, in a smaller image, has only his \u201cupper half\u201d represented, from the waist up. The photo symbolizes only the idea of the explorer; the report is not interested in his body, in exposing him, but only in his testimony: he is the report\u2019s guarantor. Splitting the photograph into two separate images points out its distinct functioning. There are two modes of representation relative to each character, one that captures and spectacularizes the woman\u2019s body (which appears entirely exposed, as an object for visual consumption) and another that indexes the explorer as the author (who appears in half-figure and minimized; we only see his \u201cupper\u201d half, since he is there as the subject of the statement of the discovery). It is worth noting that this dynamic is rigorously the same as that of the news item. The figure of Pr\u00eatre appears in the body of the article as the guarantor of the account. This can be seen in a particularly clear manner due to the use of evidential markers (\u201ca French explorer says,\u201d \u201cMarcel Pr\u00eatre reports,\u201d \u201csays Marcel Pr\u00eatre,\u201d \u201che reported,\u201d \u201che says\u201d) that punctuate the text so as to signal his role: he is the source of what is recounted. The text does not concern itself with looking at him, since it is constructed from him; its very condition as news, its claim to factuality, is anchored in his testimony, a perceptual position that the text assumes without ever actually thematizing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The short story, which revisits and translates much of the report, above all in its first part, right from the start introduces, however, a seemingly trivial difference: it is that while incorporating Marcel Pr\u00eatre\u2019s point of view, his own figure will also be the narration\u2019s object of attention. Throughout the story, we will see the explorer blushing demurely, flustered, concealing himself, feeling uneasy, and shy. From the first scene of the encounter between Pr\u00eatre and Little Flower, the narrative will even allow itself to penetrate his soul to see it at risk of overflowing (\u201cit was only because he wasn\u2019t insane, that his soul neither fainted nor lost control\u201d). Note that it is not only that he is being seen, but that he is also an object of derision, of mockery. This first scene is narrated through the lenses of one of the most familiar topoi<\/em> in Clarice\u2019s work: a character who, faced with something that risks destabilizing him, pathetically attempts to protect himself through his intellect. The narrative repeatedly places him in this embarrassing situation, with the explorer employing several subterfuges (\u201caverted his eyes,\u201d an appeal to his \u201csymbolic helmet,\u201d \u201cblinked,\u201d \u201ctaking notes\u201d). While the report was narrated in a way basically consonant with Pr\u00eatre, in which he was never called into question, he was not judged, the short story, for its part, despite starting from the explorer\u2019s angle, which was inherited from the article, also allows itself to evaluate him, as if he were oscillating from the origin of the gaze to the object scrutinized by the narration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be difficult to describe the experience of the short story without employing the idea that there is different order of complexity in relation not only to the American newspaper report but also to all the other discourses in this series, which will become even more accentuated. After the first part of the story, in which there is the account of Marcel Pr\u00eatre\u2019s expedition, we will have a fold, a kind of change in narrative level: \u201cLittle Flower\u2019s photograph was published in the color supplement of the Sunday papers, where she fit life-size.\u201d We had been coming from the narration of how Pr\u00eatre had \u201cdiscovered the smallest pygmies in the world\u201d (in large part based on the actual report), but here there is not only a spatial cut (we leave the forest) but also a cut in plane, in which we leap from the primary sphere of the account to being placed before the very publication in which this story that we are reading would be disseminated: a kind of fictional The American Weekly<\/em>, now internal to the diegesis, which retroactively alters the status of what we had read at the  beginning of the story. And if we recall how Marcel Pr\u00eatre\u2019s gesture of writing is figured in the story, as a defense mechanism of the character (taking notes is a way of averting his eyes from Little Flower, of not suffering the impact of the existence of the other), then we could say that the story not only incorporates the account in the report, but also allows itself to speculate on its libidinal genesis as a protective fantasy, a way of not seeing. If we wish to consider the story in relation to the series, what singularizes it is not simply that Marcel Pr\u00eatre\u2019s factoid is no longer asserted as in the other links of the chain (that, therefore, in this case there is no lie, but a fictional text), but also its greater latitude, which allows it at the same time to incorporate the hoax and interrogate the fantasy that brings it to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What matters in this reflexive operation, however, is not simply the news item there reposted, its appearance as a fictional object, but, of course, the scene it inaugurates. What the fold puts at stake is, above all, the social circulation of the news item: the second part of the short story superimposes on the account of the discovery of \u201cthe smallest woman of the world\u201d a plane that echoes it, the scene of reading, the panorama by the various families faced with the report in the open newspaper. It is as if the scrutiny of the story did not stop at the representation, taken statically, but followed its trail, its whole movement, until its reception. And this superimposition of planes is evidently not innocuous: it places them in interaction inside the story, producing a kind of reciprocal mirroring. On the one hand, it would be possible to say that this second part, which performs a sort of X-ray of the soul of the readers, somewhat deepens that libidinal examination of the explorer, the subject of the account of the discovery. This can be seen in particular through a reference to Pr\u00eatre\u2019s \u201cdelicacy of feeling,\u201d a reference both ironic and suspicious, situated right at the moment of transition to the tableau with the various scenes of the urban families who receive the news. This panorama which runs through the different reactions of the newspaper\u2019s readers will be concerned above all with probing a certain \u201cdelicacy of feeling;\u201d that is what seems to interest the narration as it visits the various families: if there is something that unites these different scenes, it is what is being examined, it is the recurrence of a certain \u201csensibility.\u201d It is as if something initially belonging to the protagonist reappeared in the inhabitants of these houses and apartments, was reflected in them to be better investigated. In a first line of equivalence, produced by this juxtaposition of planes, we would have, then, \u201cMarcel Pr\u00eatre is like these newspaper readers:\u201d the core of the story would deepen, in darker tones, the examination of a certain inability to see, revealing its perverse depths. On the other hand, however, the equation can be read the opposite way, in which we would have \u201cthese readers are like Marcel Pr\u00eatre:\u201d we are invited to read those scenes through the issue of colonialism, which is brought inside the homes. And, indeed, one of the things that the cut to the apartments does is make clear the expansion of the scope of the \u201ccolonialism\u201d that the short story places under examination. While the initial scene can be read as gravitating around a colonial scene in the strict sense (that is, a European explorer faced with peoples of Equatorial Africa in a French-administered territory), the transition to the scenes of the urban families also indicates that what seems to be at stake in the story is not (only) territorial or economic domination, but colonialism as a way of perceiving and representing the other. Furthermore, it should be added that, although there is no actual geographical reference for these homes, Brazilian readers will likely feel a sensibility that is quite familiar in the examination of the delicate souls inhabiting them, which repeatedly reveals a certain conjunction of tenderness and racial violence. And herein lies perhaps the main analogy between the protagonist and the newspaper readers, for it is as if the story, in its structure, draws a parallel between two colonialisms, in which we cut from one setting, which refers to European neocolonialism, Marcel Pr\u00eatre\u2019s expedition in Equatorial Africa, to urban apartments, whose X-ray reveals a cruelty full of \u201ctenderness,\u201d which is the persistence of this other colonial past. 8<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These mirrorings between Pr\u00eatre and the newspaper readers, however, do not exhaust the effects of the short story\u2019s reflexive fold. For it is as if the scene of reading that the story encloses does not remain contained in the diegesis or in this relation between characters; it turns toward its very enunciation, exploring the analogy with the actual reader. The story makes it very clear that its readers are in a position analogous to that of those urban families that it so ruthlessly lays bare. This is revealed most distinctly in the conclusion, in which a lady will close the newspaper, mirroring what the reader of the narrative is also about to do: we, too, will turn the page and close the story, the book, after finishing it. It is as if both readers simultaneously, reflecting one another, were performing the exact same gesture. The lady\u2019s movement can be seen as yet another of the forms of \u201cnot seeing\u201d under examination, and, in this sense, the implicit suggestion is that we, the effective interlocutors of the story\u2019s enunciation, are about to make a gesture whose meaning is analogous to that of those characters: we close the story to avert our eyes from the existence of the Pygmy woman. There is a desire to implicate the readers themselves in the issue, which the narrative does by offering a series of unsettling doubles, in the various scenes of the urban families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one more play in this specular game, finally, it would be possible to see in the fifth family a double of Clarice\u2019s own home, deepening this dizzying momentum in the short story that drags everything into itself. The scene features a boy who has the macabre idea to use Little Flower as a \u201ctoy,\u201d as a thing, to frighten his younger brother: \u201cwe could play so much with her.\u201d It occurs that a biographical trait, a name, could be taken as betraying the author\u2019s inscription in the scene: \u201cPaulo,\u201d the little brother that the boy wants to frighten, is precisely the name of Clarice\u2019s youngest son, such that, following this same trail, her eldest son Pedro would be the one speaking, and therefore, the woman before the mirror, who occupies the narrative\u2019s exact center, would be a double of the author herself. It is a writing that does not remain uncommitted, whether in the sense that its authorship is not an abstract, non-thematized vanishing point, since it is also staged, or in the more current sense of the expression, that it refuses a safe position, it does not exempt itself. In this sense, it does not concern taking speech as an alleged fact, as if it had really occurred, disregarding its fictional dimension. On the contrary, the appeal to biographical data, far from leading the story into a regime of assertion, which would approximate it to other documents in the series, is actually and precisely a deeper dive into a certain power of the fictional. It further radicalizes the abyss of mirrors that we had been attempting to describe, being yet another of the instances of this problematizing spiral that allows nothing to escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IV <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

To further this investigation into the singularity of \u201cThe Smallest Woman in the World\u201d in the series would also involve addressing the third part of the short story, the return to the forest, in which the narration finally assumes Little Flower\u2019s point of view. 9<\/a><\/sup> In my judgement, it would also resort to Alexandre Nodari\u2019s reflections on fiction, particularly his concept of obliquation, which was elaborated, not coincidentally, through reading the work of Clarice Lispector. It is that one way to consider the story\u2019s difference in this chain world be precisely to observe that, in the other links, a univocal relation of a subject over an object prevails, whereas in Clarice\u2019s narrative, the relations do not cease to fold upon themselves, both in the sense that they continually multiply, unfold into new points of view, and in the sense that they become reversible, in a constant movement in which each term that occupied the position of the seer is simultaneously redirected to that of the seen.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

  1. The initial research that resulted in the material exhibited here was conducted over the course of my doctorate (defended in late 2025 and developed in the preceding years) not only with the support but also with the partnership of Alexandre Nodari, having been partially presented in the dissertation. The use of the first-person plural, above all in the first part, is not rhetorical but a vestige of this collaboration. Locating these documents would also not have been possible without the fundamental help of Juana Medus. A more robust and extensive unfolding of this research, which is still in its early stages, is currently being conducted with the assistance of Professor Yudith Rosenbaum, with the aim of producing a book.[↩<\/a>]<\/span><\/li>
  2. The caption featured: \u201cThis tiny woman, around twelve years old, is approximately five months pregnant and measures around 48 cm in height. She is holding in her hand a photograph that I gave her.\u201d\u00a0This same photo was presented by \u0160\u00e1rka Grauov\u00e1 in a recent text for this site, \u201cCircle and Vortex in \u2018The Smallest Woman in the World.\u2019\u201d https:\/\/site.claricelispector.ims.com.br\/2026\/05\/07\/circulo-e-voragem-em-a-menor-mulher-do-mundo\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=circulo-e-voragem-em-a-menor-mulher-do-mundo<\/a> [↩<\/a>]<\/span><\/li>
  3. Temperatures over 60 degrees Celsius; the racist characterization of the tiny people who would live in trees, who would not know fire and had almost no language.[↩<\/a>]<\/span><\/li>
  4. As one can see in Image 3, the Swiss report features, for the first time, the same photograph that we have been pursuing. It is the only \u201cevidence\u201d that Pr\u00eatre would use and reuse to support his accounts. One notes, however, that in this first appearance it operates differently, coming with the caption \u201ca Pygmy\u201d (un pygm\u00e9e<\/em>), and serves to illustrate the passage that narrates Pr\u00eatre\u2019s encounter with a male Pygmy, and not a \u201cpregnant Pygmy woman.\u201d We do not have time to elaborate the argument here, but our hypothesis is that the character of \u201cLittle Flower\u201d is an invention by Philip Drew based on the photograph, as if he were supplementing a story that the book had promised but did not deliver.[↩<\/a>]<\/span><\/li>
  5. The report in The American Weekly<\/em>, for example, placed the encounter with the Likouala people \u201cin the depths of Equatorial Africa,\u201d advancing \u201cthrough dense forests;\u201d the book similarly described a country that was \u201cabsolutely unexplored and unknown,\u201d \u201cferociously isolated\u201d by the \u201cincredible difficulties that the traveler encountered\u201d in reaching it, consisting of \u201cimpenetrable jungles\u201d and accessible only after weeks of hiking, clearing \u201ctunnels through the vegetation,\u201d in a location where even the \u201ccompasses stopped working.\u201d [↩<\/a>]<\/span><\/li>
  6. For example, besides the inconsistencies and discrepancies between the versions, a comparison between The American Weekly<\/em> report that arrived in Clarice\u2019s hands and Calibre<\/em> 475 Express<\/em> shows that these alterations were not haphazard, that more than adapting the book\u2019s account, Philip Drew was producing a distinct \u201cfiction,\u201d inscribed in the tradition of the \u201cnoble savage.\u201d Drew affects a condescending lyricism, narrows the enunciative distance, singularizes the unknown people into a character inexistent at the source, to whom he confers speech in direct discourse, to give his narrative the closure of a moral fable, deploying familiar motifs of \u201cbeing naturally self-sufficient,\u201d content with few needs, and free of the weight of possessing. The way that the colonial discourse appears in the report, the type of fantasy that is constructed there, is entirely distinct from that of the book.[↩<\/a>]<\/span><\/li>
  7. PATAI, Daphne. L\u2019essentialisme de Clarice Lispector. \u00c9tudes fran\u00e7aises, 25(1), 1989 https:\/\/www.erudit.org\/en\/journals\/etudfr\/1989-v25-n1-etudfr1062\/035772ar\/<\/a> [↩<\/a>]<\/span><\/li>
  8. A possible allusion in the short story to the \u201cplaymate,\u201d a slavery practice that Gilberto Freyre describes multiple times in his The Masters and the Slaves<\/em>, may serve to deepen this question of the historical-geographical circumscription of this colonialism, see the PhD dissertation La\u00e7os de fam\u00edlia: exerc\u00edcios de leitura.<\/em> https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/161274868\/La\u00e7os_de_fam\u00edlia_exerc\u00edcios_de_leitura<\/a> [↩<\/a>]<\/span><\/li>
  9. And, above all, it would involve taking seriously the \u201clove argument\u201d regarding the Pygmy woman at the end of the story, as Jo\u00e3o Camillo Penna does in \u201cA cosmopol\u00edtica de Clarice Lispector (A pol\u00edtica das coisas)” [The Cosmopolitics of Clarice Lispector (The Politics of Things)], a chapter from O s\u00edmbolo e a coisa<\/em> [The Symbol and the Thing], a forthcoming book on Clarice\u2019s work.[↩<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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