Clarice Lispector and Vergílio Ferreira: problematizing existence - DOI: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v32i1.4804

Abstract

Clarice Lispector and Vergílio Ferreira: problematizing existence. The work by Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector (1925-1977) and the literary production of Portuguese writer Vergílio Ferreira (1916-1996), initiated with the publication of the novel Mudança, in 1969, present similarities in theme exposition as well as the process of text construction. The works of these two writers are marked by the introspective analysis in which prevail the evidence of life in its course, the feeling of existential loneliness, and the questioning of death. The present article consists in the exposition of the existential course of Lóri in Uma aprendizagem ou O livro dos prazeres, by Clarice Lispector, and Alberto Soares in Aparição, by Vergílio Ferreira. In order to do that, our main theoretical apparatus will be the philosophical treaty Ser e tempo, by Martin Heidegger. According to Heidegger, it is only possible to understand human nature within its unceasing movement of interaction with itself, with other people and with the objects surrounding it. Therefore, it is necessary to delineate the identity of man who breaches the phatic links with the surrounding objects and beings and sees himself as his own founder and of the world.