Faces of fear in Clarice Lipsector s short stories / As faces do medo nos contos de Clarice Lispector

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2009

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The present work has as an objective to explore an aspect in Clarice Inspector s works still little investigated: fear. Having this proposal in sight, we have attempted to trace, primarily, an overview of this feeling in societies, in order to point out the importance it assumes in humankind s history as a whole and, more specifically, in the time and life of the author herself. The different manifestations in her chronicles, paintings and translations reveal that the fear experimented by Lispector reaches, in different ways, each of the genres she dedicated herself to. In the second part of the research, we have sought to construct a brief history of the so called "horror literature" in Brazil and in the world, observing how fear has been worked into fiction throughout the centuries. This investigation proves itself important for the next step of the research, in which we verified how this feeling inserts itself in the author s narratives and what s the relation it establishes with her characters. We have done so because works containing fear in some well-known texts of the genre - like "The black cat" and "Berenice", by Edgar Allan Poe, "The call of Cthulhu", by Howard Philips Lovecraft, and "The willows", by Algernon Blackwood - serve as a counterpoint to the efforts done by Lispector in her works. For the analysis in question, we selected ten short stories by the author in which the presence of fear makes itself visible and that contemplate, chronologically, all her trajectory of storyteller. Through this investigation, we realized that the emotion in question is utilized in a very characteristic way, considering it is not the fear of death that appears in the narratives, but the fear of life. Other than that, it?s clear that the internal actions of the characters overwhelm the external, which is reflected in the very own construction of horror in the presented short stories. In this manner, we concluded a careful evaluation of fear as a present thematic in Clarice Lispector?s works, indicating a point of view so far little explored in the analysis of her texts

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fear horror medo short stories horror clarice lispector contos

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