Mother, body, writing: the origins and identity of literature in Clarice Lispector

Abstract

I start with an example: an accident that affects the body. By a metonymic effect (the bumpy hand) we are led to the metaphor of writing-body in its infinite regenerating capacity. We speak about the painful work that has always persisted slowly over Lispector's literary body, where invisible scars generate words. In this way, we meet the maternal figure and the implications of a phantasmatic episode around which the question of the origin and identity of literature in Clarice Lispector is centered.