The Love (and the Woman): A (Im)Possible Conversation between Clarice Lispector and Sartre

Authors

  • Valeska Maria Zanello de Loyola Instituto de Educação Superior de Brasília

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2007000300002

Abstract

The present work analyses Clarice Lispector’s story “The Love”, starting from the following categories pointed by Sartre in Being and the Anything: to see and to be seen, functionality and love. Starting from the experience elaborated by Clarice in her text, in which Ana – a housewife, always busy serving her family (“pure functionality”) –, in one of her goings and comings to and from the city, comes across a blind man chewing a chewing gum. But a blind man has an eye that doesn’t see, it is an eye without function. It is this experience that opens to Ana the dimension of love, in a very specific sense (which points out to the gender relationships), and for which the phenomenological Sartre’s description seems to us somewhat limited.

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Published

2007-09-11

How to Cite

Loyola, V. M. Z. de. (2007). The Love (and the Woman): A (Im)Possible Conversation between Clarice Lispector and Sartre. Revista Estudos Feministas, 15(3), 531. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-026X2007000300002

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 3 (2007)

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Articles

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