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Existential Phenomenology According to Clarice Lispector

2013; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 37; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/phl.2013.0032

1086-329X

Michael Marder,

French Literature and Critical Theory

Clarice Lispector’s narrative in The Passion According to G.H. is a literary enactment of phenomenology at the limit, an attempt at reimagining the world from nonadult and other-than-human points of view. I interpret the term “passion,” woven into Lispector’s textual production, in terms of the existential intensity that accompanies the transformation of experience as it departs from its human modality. Offering a phenomenological description of such self-alienation, I pay particular attention to metamorphoses in the perception of time, space, and life.