Clarice Lispector autora de si: reflexões sobre o fazer literário em A descoberta do mundo

Abstract

Starting from a punctual study of the chronicle of Clarice Lispector, in its multiple faces of revelation, the present research proposes to unveil the reflective and metalinguistic process of its writing, passing through the fictionalized presence of the author, as well as her perspective about the act of creation. The corpus of research is centered on the chronicles published between 1967 and 1973, in the Jornal do Brasil newspaper and, later, collected in the book A Descoberta do Mundo (1984). For this purpose, we examine the characteristics inherent to the chronicle and how the writer works with this genre, then we grasp the issue of self-writing and analyze how the reflections about the literary work are present in the space of the chronic. The research is primarily analytical-reflexive and, in order to discuss the chronicle as genre, uses articles by Antonio Candido, Davi Arrigucci and Marlise Meyer. In order to approach the chronicle of Clarice, in particular, we use the studies by Nádia Gotlib and Walnice Nogueira. About the presence of the writer in her writing, two key theorists on the subject were favored: Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault. For the studies on autofiction and metafiction, the following stand out among others: Philippe Lejeune, Diana Klinger and Linda Hutcheon, whereas in the process of creative construction, our attention will focus primarily on Octávio Paz and Leyla Perrone-Móises. In the Final Considerations, the chronicle is reiterated as a scriptural testimony of the restless and questioning profile of the author observed and analyzed throughout the research, as well as the creative and reflective mechanisms of her literary work