Abstract

FERRERO CANDENAS, Inés. The Origins of Creation. A Breath of Life, by Clarice Lispector. Lit. teor. hist. crit. [online]. 2017, vol.19, n.1, pp.287-304. ISSN 0123-5931.  https://doi.org/10.15446/lthc.vl9n1.60887.

My work explores the way the novel A Breath of Life, by the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector, reflects on the relationship between life and writing by referring to a cosmogonic system created by Lispector herself and supported in a series of emergence myths, as Mircea Eliade calls them, to which I have given the names Mother Tree, Universal Copula and Pagan Messengers. I argue that the reading of the novel through these myths displays a conception of reality that could be described as "divine"; a reality in which writing is formed as a product of a kind of transmutation of the creator conscience.

Keywords : Clarice Lispector; poetry of the sacred; writing and existence; emergence myths; Brazilian literature.

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