Passion according to G.H .: the joy of otherness
Existentialism. Sartre. G.H. Clarice Lispector. Otherness.
This research aims to analyze the construction of the self that occurs in the work of Clarice Lispector, more precisely in the novel The Passion according to GH. The fragmentation of the I is a mark of the individual of modernity, which makes us increasingly need to know ourselves and become aware of the world around us, so as to attribute a meaning to existence. What we see in this novel is the need to find herself presented by an author who is present in her writings as a literary element that leads the development of the narrative to the end. This process of construction of the Self is established only through the gaze of the Other, who is the one who observes us completely in all aspects. In order to establish this relationship between literature and otherness, we will resort to the ideas of Jean-Paul Sartre established in his phenomenological treatise On Being and Nothingness: The Phenomenological Ontology. By means of an Other, often unusual and strange, G.H. establishes an understanding of itself, whose process of identity construction presents itself as being tumultuous, exhausting, violent, distressing and disturbing. Thus, Clarice, through her character, G.H. lives the tormented joy of the discovery of existence. She discovers the joy of living, even if this joy is a "difficult" joy.