Literature and Abstract Art: Clarice Lispector’s Água Viva
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literature, abstract painting, Clarice Lispector, Água vivaAbstract
The essay discusses the intermedial relations between art and Clarice Lispector’s Água viva, taking the novel as a literary version of abstract painting. Discarding references to the world of fictional reality, the text almost wholly gives up plot and character, as well as the presence of a narrator. However, by preserving remnants of these elements of traditional fiction, it signals the option for a kind of abstraction which keeps vestiges of recognizable objects and living or imaginary beings, as in certain paintings by Wassily Kandinsky and Manabu Mabe. Such as abstract painting, the novel does not do without a formal organization, which consists in the use of recurrent images, usually associated with water and synaesthetic figures. As a whole, these strategies converge to the resumption of existential themes constant in Clarice’s work: the search for it, the neuter, the thing itself, which lurks under the veil of appearances.
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