A modernidade e o feminino na pulsação do discurso

Abstract

Clarice Lispector's Um sopro de vida, published posthumously in 1979, inscribes the crisis of legitimation that characterizes modernity, a crisis associated to the breakdown of narrative structures, according to the French scholar Jean-François Lyotard. Doing away with plot and character, Lispector's text articulates a discoursive game in the process of which the binary structure on which it is built is deconstructed, leading to the blurring of distinctions between male author/female product, active subject/passive object. Toe game that underscores the dissolution of the paternal metaphor of literary creativity ends up by placing the feminine in the origin and center of a discourse that, ultimately, abolishes the structural, experiential and conceptual division between literature and life.