A imagística da escrita nos romances de Clarice Lispector

Abstract

Throughout her literary career, in numerous interviews Clarice Lispector came across the question "Why do you write?". On no occasion, however, was she able to give a direct answer to the question. Through her evasions, as well as conversations with other authors, Lispector revealed that this was a personal concern. Therefore, perhaps, the thematic has acquired so much importance in her writings, especially in her novels. Through a metalinguistic construction, the author thought about her writing, which made her work an important source of studies for the field of literary creation. So, this thesis is based on Caroline Spurgeon's Shakespeare's Imagery (2006), whose purpose was to gather, to catalog and to analyze all the metaphors present in the work of the classic English writer, to approach the answer sought by Lispector: her reason for writing. In view of this objective, the method used consisted in reading the novels of the author, highlighting all their imageries, this is, metaphors, similes and comparisons, about writing and literary composition. In a second moment, these imageries were digitized and categorized, according to their content, allowing a quantitative vision of what the writing, in fact, represented for Lispector. As a result of the analysis, two main themes were identified, which occupy 65% of the analyzed metaphors: the Impossibility, linked to the inefficiency of the word to achieve what Lacan (2003) called the real, and the Demiurgy, concept that links the creator act of a writer to a similar act of God, through the mythology of the word, addressed here by the bias of Cassirer's studies (2009). In addition, this thesis analyzes the other categories found on the light of theories of different areas, such as philosophy, linguistics, psychoanalysis and positive psychology. For this, the following authors are referenced: Plato (2004), Aristotle (1959), Wittgenstein (2005), Austin (1990), Foucault (1967) and Csikszentmihalyi (1999).