Entre quatro paredes: a cena erótica na contística de Clarice Lispector e Lídia Jorge

Abstract

Eroticism is a cultural product that‘s present in any human activity even we‘re not talking about sex. It exclusively belongs to the human being because we are gifted with a complex psychic device, different from other animals, turned toward a sexual behavior without exclusive reproduction aims. Eroticism‘ effects are found in our physical, psychological, and religious behavior like pointed out by Georges Bataille‘s studies. Eroticism manifests itself in three dimensions – body, heart and soul – having as a common point among both the dialectical opposition life x death and the search for being‘s continuity. As a cultural construction eroticism may be found in arts‘ universe, including literature. In an attempt to construct a route through eroticism became a sophisticated cultural code, full of aesthetic elements, it interests us to ―revisit‖ the myth of Eros, to a better textual comprehension of the eroticism concept is fundamental to compare it to pornography concept. Our research focus on presence of eroticism in Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector and Portuguese writer Lídia Jorge short stories, once their literatures are an object not much investigated in this perspective. Even on different spaces, contexts and epochs, there are lots of resemblances among their literary production. We intend to introduce Clarice Lispector and Lídia Jorge‘s literature, emphasizing their particular aspects, especially in what concerns their structures, contexts, themes and influences. Our work has as literary corpus four short stories: Tentação and Miss Algrave by Clarice Lispector, and António and O Belo Adormecido by Lídia Jorge. As main goal, this work takes an erotic look at the corpora texts, pointing to the presence of erotic elements in their contents – language, structure, and literary recourses – in accordance with the three erotic levels considered by Georges Bataille – body, heart and sacred.