Água viva: uma escritura como exercício de pintura em Clarice Lispector

Abstract

The objective of our work is to analyze comparatively the pictorial and literary productions of Clarice Lispector writer, in the background throughout the troubled Brazilian reality of the 1970s, especially regarding cultural issues. Our study focused, mainly, in the intellectual output of the writer concerning the 70's, like the books Água viva (1973), A via crucis do corpo (1974), Onde estivestes de noite (1974) e A hora da estrela (1977), and 18 paintings painted by the author between 1975 and 1976. This study had the theoretical postulate such as Cultural Studies and Comparative Studies Latin American contemporary. From offering such theories, it was possible to conclude that the writer will use her friendship relations with renowned writers and visual artists, her social position as diplomat’s wife and her jornalist career and to complement, her intellectual production in that time making her multifaceted. We also concluded that the book Água viva, besides we can read it like a painting clariciana theory, also we can read, even metaphorically, like a writer’s diary, thanks to the Cultural Studies that postulate it in relation to the new possibilities of writing a biography.