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- Title
Cartesian literature: the narrative mathematics of being in Clarice Lispector.
- Authors
Schwarz, Henry
- Abstract
The origins of the intellectual inspiration that drives Clarice Lispector are not easily identified. Critics have attempted to apply perspectives of both existentialism and feminism to her works, and such perspectives do reveal a true connection between the writer and her time. However, they do not serve to explain the author herself or provide a unified understanding of her works from the initial years of her career to the end of her life. In this essay I will attempt to identify some of the specific philosophical concepts that provide structure to the author's earliest work, not as the result of the influence of intellectual movements or social contemporaries, either in Brazil or in Europe, but almost uniquely from personal elements and experiences in her own early life and also the significant early influence of the French philosopher René Descartes.
- Subjects
LISPECTOR, Clarice, 1920-1977; PHILOSOPHY &; literature; DESCARTES, Rene, 1596-1650; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMINISM; BRAZILIAN literature; BRAZILIAN literature -- History &; criticism; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Studies (Canadian Association of Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CALACS)), 2014, Vol 39, Issue 1, p56
- ISSN
0826-3663
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1080/08263663.2014.978157