Revista Estudos Feministas
Print version ISSN 0104-026XOn-line version ISSN 1806-9584
Abstract
ZANELLO, Valeska. O amor (e a mulher): uma conversa (im)possível entre Clarice Lispector e Sartre. Rev. Estud. Fem. [online]. 2007, vol.15, n.03, pp.531-539. ISSN 1806-9584.
The present work analyses Clarice Lispector’s story “The Love”, starting from the following categories pointed by Sartre in Being and the Anything: to see and to be seen, functionality and love. Starting from the experience elaborated by Clarice in her text, in which Ana - a housewife, always busy serving her family (“pure functionality”) -, in one of her goings and comings to and from the city, comes across a blind man chewing a chewing gum. But a blind man has an eye that doesn’t see, it is an eye without function. It is this experience that opens to Ana the dimension of love, in a very specific sense (which points out to the gender relationships), and for which the phenomenological Sartre’s description seems to us somewhat limited.
Keywords : Love; Woman; Clarice Lispector; Sartre.