A crise da narrativa tradicional e a odisseia da introspecção em um sopro de vida (pulsações), de Clarice Lispector

Abstract

This research aims to discuss the narrative crisis in the postmodernity era based on the following question: would there be in Clarice Lispector’s text a rupture with the traditional storyteller in order to isolate author and public, and generating reverberations in the narrated issue? Our object of investigation is the novel Um sopro de vida (Pulsações) and our main theoretical reference is Walter Benjamin in his storyteller studies. The work shows the narrator rupture - linear and omniscient - of the Benjaminian tradition, which came from Homer and that entered into crisis in the contemporary narrative, because now everything is fragmented and rarefied. Today, one does not try to get anywhere. There is no pretense of returning to Ithaca. There is no hero. There is no place or time. Narrative today is, by definition, the odyssey into the subject itself, the narrative of self-absorption, of introspection. Some questions about author and authorship - symptoms of this crisis - will also be raised, in order to demonstrate that the boundaries between work of fiction and critical essay tend to disappear. The difficulty of narrating in modern and bourgeois society, in which the isolation of the individual became a rule, makes the author seek new alternatives, such as writing about the creative process itself, using metafictional strategies. In order to conduct an exploratory and descriptive research, we will use the analytic and hypothetical-deductive methods, resorting in particular to the reflections of Benjamin, Bauman and Hutcheon