A paixão segundo G.H.: author and reader in the difficult joy of otherness

Abstract

This article proposes a reading of Clarice Lispector’s novel A paixão segundo G.H., published in 1964. This article is about a reading on otherness, established by the author-reader relationship and the combination of literature and philosophical thought. For this purpose, we shall seek the contributions from Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialist theory, through his work O ser e o nada: ensaio de ontologia fenomenológica (2015b), and the ideas about the question of the author and the reader as participating literary elements of the process of writing the literary text, which were developed by Antoine Compagnon in his book O demônio da teoria (2010). This work is the result of a Master’s research in Comparative Literature.