When to guess is to be: the interchange i-other-other-i in Clarice Lispector’s writing

Abstract

The intimist and introspective literature practiced by Clarice Lispector, whose narrators and characters are put to explore their and other’s solitudes and deviations, makes the Identity one of her constant and central themes. Recovering this identity from passages of chronicles (one of them unpublished) and interviews, the purpose of this paper is to aim at the way of how this topic relates to questions that are dear to the literary work of this author, such as her creation process and shocks with language, often mentioned by her narrators, characters and Lispector herself, through a style often marked, for instance, by hesitations, repetitions, questions.