Literary thresholds: an appoach between Llansol and Lispector

Abstract

Although writing is a human artefact that eliminates or puts the subject in parentheses, we are faced with borderlines situations that break the paradigms of the genres of prose – in this case, fiction and confessional formas -, and reveal dilemmas that give instability to the discourse literary produced by the imaginery. In order to observe the threshold of this instability, the work intends to revisit the postulation of difference between the literary and the non-literary to reflection on this distinctions between narrative (the other’s wriiting) and the diary (self-writing). In summary, the analysis rests on two binomials – real vs ficcional, me vs another – which will be discussed in the face of Blanchot’s challenge when suggesting a “place of magnetization”, a passage that opposes narrative to diary. In Peirce’s perspective, the image is a hypo-icon or a quase-icon that maintains close relationship with the real and the subject that supposedly could serve, respectively, as a scenario previous or authorial support. Around theses concepts, it is intended to discuss the image as a minimum unit of the “beautiful” and its effect of the “new”. The discussion corpus includes excerpts of two works: Uma data em cada mão; Livro de Horas I by the Portuguese Maria Gabriela Llansol and Um sopro de vida; Pulsações by the naturalized Brazilian Clarice Lispector.