Clarice Lispector: A Thinking Literature

Evando Nascimento presents an innovative approach to studying the work of one of Brazil's most celebrated writers. In *Clarice Lispector: A Thinking Literature*, the researcher invites other texts and quotations into the dialogue to help us reflect on the author's writings. The essays offer thought-provoking reflections on her novels, short stories, and chronicles, but also on less emblematic texts, such as the writer's correspondence, interviews, and the women's columns she wrote in specialized periodicals. Evando's analyses reveal how Clarice's fiction developed a very unique way of thinking. "(...) this is not exactly a book about Clarice, but rather a book based on her, incorporating other texts and other reflections," explains the author. The essays, organized in two parts, are guided by the notion of a thoughtful literature, but one that eschews the label of "philosophical literature." Evando's reflections on "the other" also feature prominently in his texts. The question of life and death, the human and the non-human, animality, plants, love and evil, are some of the themes that permeate the entire book.