Entre el orden y la disrupción: la escritura de Clarice Lispector en "A menor mulher do mundo"

Abstract

Clarice Lispector’s work has been described as postmodern, modernist, materialist, avant-garde: classifications that highlight how transgressive the language and stylistic play in her fiction has proven. Many have emphasized how her aesthetics tends to efface the limits of what can be represented, to fracture what can be said and its meaning. While this article doesn’t object to the predominant critique of Lispector’s work, it seeks to amplify it by focusing on the material and sensuous constitution of her writing. The analysis concentrates on “A menor mulher do mundo” to show how Lispector’s writing is predicated on assembling continuities and disruptions that insist on the vacillating quality of her aesthetics. Thus, we examine four key moments in the short story in which vacillation configures her writing as a space in which meaning is no only defied, but also constituted as an assemblage of sensuous elements that express without necessarily saying.