Language and Passion According to CL

Abstract

This article has as a starting point the novel Passion According to G.H. by the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. It is from this text that the problem of the ineffable is explored within a general horizon in relation to the concepts of I and other and of world and language from the perspectives of such authors as Emile Benveniste, Martin Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari and Matirice Blanchot. Clarice Lispector seems to presuppose her own novel as an experience of otherness, which is contemplated in this way as one of the possibilities of language.

Thus language proposes itself as a reality that exceeds the category of an instrument and even the concept of meaning itself (and of subject) to establish itself, starting from the failure that profoundly constitutes it and from the renunciation that this failure imposes, as an environment of experience of the mysterious otherness.