Entre o ser e a linguagem : o itinerário ontológico em A Paixão Segundo GH

Abstract

The main objective of this master's dissertation is to establish a dialogue between A Paixão Segundo GH (1964), the fifth novel by the writer Clarice Lispector, and philosophical thought. Among the possibilities observed, the ontological aspect proves to be the most powerful source of approximation to the Claricean text, as it demonstrates a deep questioning about the problem of being. According to the ontology proposed by Martin Heidegger (1927), by its very constitution, Being-there (Dasein) is endowed with the possibility of posing questions. Such an investigation permeates the entire work of the writer Clarice Lispector, finding its apex in A Paixão Segundo GH. The question of Being is the central point of the novel, unfolding throughout the development of the narrative, in a philosophical perspective concretized through the work with language, a writing characteristic of the author. According to Benedito Nunes, it is the reflection contained in a text that makes it possible to analyze literature from a philosophical point of view (NUNES, 1981). We rely on an approach that dissolves the boundaries between philosophical and literary texts in an interpellative approach, since it privileges the possibilities of meaning proposed in literature. In this way, we question the possibility of a 'Claricean thought', which takes place not in the molds of philosophical writing, but in a 'thinking literariness'.