Água Viva: A Cosmovision Through Solitude
Brazilian Literature. Clarice Lispector. Água viva. Solitude. Fragmented speech.
This main object of this research is the literary work Água viva, by Clarice Lispector (1998a). Água viva is characterized by a fragmentary speech and a tone of unexpected improvisation, as it does not fit into known genre conceptions. Thus, one of the main aspects of the work is the deconstruction (or reconstruction) of the definitions and limits of traditional literary genres. In the book, the stream of consciousness through language stands out, presenting a cosmovision, or conception of existence, in which the movement of life is highlighted as something uncontrollable and unpredictable, beyond the control of the human being; but, at the same time, the existence of the subject is conceived as strictly linked to the existence of the other, and the world’s, as inseparable. Therefore, in this work, our goal is to investigate how this cosmovision is aesthetically constructed by the literary discourse, the structure of the work and the images used. To support this analysis, we consider Martin Heidegger's propositions about the concepts of solitude and anguish, especially with regard to his works Os conceitos fundamentais da metafísica: mundo, finitude, solidão and Ser e tempo (2015), emphasizing concepts such as being-in-the-world and being-with. This is because it is through solitude that the space is created for the narrator-protagonist of the work in question to look at herself and understand herself - and, at the same time, not understand herself - as an individual, but also as part of a whole, which is expressed in the conceptions of existence constructed by the work, from an aesthetic point of view.