The theme of the origin is central to Clarice Lispector’s work. The texts not only insistently ask themselves about their own beginning, but also about the beginning of things and of the world. In Água Viva, the narrator inquires: “Why is it that an instant before things happen they seem to have already happened?” Writing would be an immersion in a kind of “nebula.” The text “The Egg and Chicken” is exemplary: it sets in motion a cosmogony that is confused with the origin of the world and with the process of writing, and which unfolds before our eyes as something alive and pulsating. The egg resembles “the is of the thing” in Água Viva, and impels us to pursue a beginning that is the instant itself.