Reaching the Point of Wheat, or a Portrait of the Artist as a Maturing Woman
1987; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 19; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/469298
ISSN1080-661X
Autores Tópico(s)Modernist Literature and Criticism
ResumoOU HAVE PROBABLY recognized that the title of my essay is an imitation of the title of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I have chosen to pursue a kind of meditation on creation and perhaps also on the different attitudes that men and women show with regard to becoming an artist. The moment I say that, I reproach myself for using the words men and women. We have difficulties nowadays with those words. At first I want simply to give a kind of warning. We always get confused because of those words, but we have to deal with them, we have to struggle with them. We must be very careful not to be too fascinated and deceived by them. When I use the word or I should open a parenthesis and explain what I mean by it. The first thing I want to say is simply this: when an author signs with a woman's name, it does not mean that the book can be said to be feminine. This is banal, this is obvious, but I want to say it because I myself am a victim of what I am saying. Because I thought they were the best possible examples, I had to choose Joyce and Clarice Lispector-Joyce in order to illustrate what I feel about the artist as a young and Clarice Lispector because of what she has to say about women. And it happens that he is a and she is a woman. It could happen a little differently, maybe a would have had something to say about female or feminine writing, or vice versa. And so every time I say masculine or feminine, or man or woman, please use as many quotation marks as you need to avoid taking these terms too literally. I'll tell you a series of stories regarding the first story in the world, which is Genesis. I'll tell you something about how an artist is formed, about what actually makes an artist. The genesis of an artist is not unrelated to genesis generally speaking. There is a whole genre of literature which is concerned with that, the Bildungsroman, and this is
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