The baroque in Clarice Lispector’s writing

Abstract

Clarice Lispector’s work is impregnated by baroque elements throughout the writing of several of her novels, as some studies in the field of literary theory have shown. Lispector can be included in the line of contemporary Brazilian writers in whose work the Baroque appears unequivocally, due to the peculiar characteristics of hers writing. Digressions, antitheses, paradoxes, strangeness are stylistic features of the Baroque in literature that we can trace from this writer’s works. Thus, the general problems of language, art, existence and death, which Signótica. 2021, v.33: e65357 Signótica | ISSN: 2316-3690 DOI: 10.5216/sig.v33.65357 coexist in Baroque aesthetics, give an essayistic character in several of hers works, as announced by Clarice in Água Viva. “And when the word is strange, that›s where it gets its meaning. And when life is strange, life begins there.” (LISPECTOR, 1980, p. 85).