Explanation of Clarice

Abstract

The present essay approaches Clarice Lispector’s ideas in her last texts, during the 1970s, a phase in her literary trajectory that has become known, according to her own suggestion, as “the time of garbage.” Here it is postulated that by situation herself from a distance from the writers of the Latin American boom, she experienced the crisis of Western culture in a way that lead her in the direction of the “imagination of disaster” and of “pop imagination”, at the cost of the “humanist imagination” and the “dialectical imagination.”