Caminhos percorridos por epígrafes de Clarice Lispector
Caminhos percorridos por epígrafes de Clarice Lispector
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.1882408031
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Palavras-chave: Clarice Lispector, epígrafe, Júlio Cortázar, Moebius, personagem
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Keywords: Clarice Lispector, epigraph, Júlio Cortázar, Moebius, character
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Abstract: The subtle presence of epigraphs allows a deep significant link to be established between texts almost in a confessional and secret manner — the epigraphed message communicates only with the reader who has followed the paths of the referenced text and the one that will be presented. In this aspect, in this research, the texts “Anel de Moebius”, by Julio Cortázar, and Perto do Coração Selvagem (1943), by Clarice Lispector, stand out, which enable the representative construction of common meanings between both protagonist characters that coexist together of loneliness and melancholy — inherent and inescapable to them. Cortázar's epigraph takes up Lispector's text and is able to show the suspension of consciousness of her character, Janet, in the face of the traumatic events she experienced. Joana, Clarice's protagonist, finds herself submerged in an intangible reality and she touches – or at least glimpses – an ideal of resignation as Janet did the moment her innocence and fear were confronted and shattered. Thus, it is as if Clarice's narrator showed the threshold between the internal and external worlds and the breaking of this barrier through travel - leaving herself to, from afar, see and understand herself - just like the protagonist, already shattered, by Cortázar. These two worlds belonging to different works are interconnected through the epigraph, and a better and deeper understanding between what is said and what is not said is revealed.
- Ana Caroline de Freitas