Clarice Lispector | Adoration for what exists

Living beings – animals and plants – occupy a special place in the work of Clarice Lispector. More than accompanying the narratives as illustrations, they have their own existential status, a way of existing and thinking that, being unknown, they provoke, modify, and thus reorient human existence and ways of writing. Água Viva speaks of the “eroticism inherent in living things.” The act of writing is nourished by this eroticism, by singular and enigmatic lives that take place beyond the boundaries of the human. Chickens, dogs, cockroaches, trees, and flowers are a few examples of the beings that inhabit Clarice’s texts as an overwhelming otherness.