BETWEEN GOD AND THE RAT: THE DIVINE AND THE MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE IN PERDOANDO DEUS BY CLARICE LISPECTOR
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https://doi.org/10.12957/palimpsesto.2024.79095Keywords:
Clarice Lispector, Deus, Experiência Mística, Literatura e Religião.Abstract
Clarice Lispector (1929-1977) published several literary genres and among them the short story stands out as a broad and lively production. This article aims to analyze a short story by the author entitled “Perdoando Deus” (Forgiving God), which portrays the narrator’s contact with the divine when walking through the streets of Rio de Janeiro and feeling something that she cannot name, and from this the character ends up stepping on a representation of this God, who appears in the form of a dead rat. Therefore, the article will expand on the theme of the mystical experience that runs throughout the story bringing the conception of “inner experience” by the French philosopher Georges Bataille (2016), and then the article will analyze which facet of God (based on the Bible) the narrator encounters and is being evoked within the narrative in the form of a rat, and animal considered unclear.
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