RUS (São Paulo) (Dec 2020)
Echoes from the underground
Abstract
Attentive to the resonances of the “underground man” in the work of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, born in Tschetschelnik, in today’s Ukraine (1920-1977), the present study aims at perceiving glimpses of these echoes as they appear in the narrator’s voice in Clarice’s novel The Passion According to G.H. (1964), as well as images that may inform the reading of her novel The Hour of the Star (1977), along with her short-stories “The Buffalo” and “An Angel’s Discontent”. As we know from the material researched by her biographer Nadia Battella Gotlib, Clarice Lispector would read Dostoevsky and Hermann Hesse, namely Steppenwolf (1927), whose imagery for its turn we may consider in relation to Dostoevsky’s Notes from the underground.
