BETWEEN PAINTING AND MUSIC: THE REPETITION IN THE WORK OF CLARICE LISPECTOR

Abstract

Considering that the work of the writer Clarice Lispector is composed of fragments of texts published almost everywhere: her novels are constructed from extracts from the stories, the stories are reissues of newspaper columns, the newspaper columns form another novel, etc., we will try to demonstrate with this article that such repetition, the insistence on repeating the same words, the same ideas, the same characters, ends up creating a unique literary style which constrains us, by force, to repeat, to open your eyes and see. With repetition, we manage to see what is always there, what is always given, obvious, quotidian. And since repetition is poorly accepted in literature, as Hélène Cixous underlines, we will see that Lispector uses painting and music to support her “repetitive” work and reveal that literary repetition, between painting and music, can bring out the “true” thing and lead us towards the prehistory of a future.

Keywords

• clarice lispector
• répétition
• peinture
• musique
• style