Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector

Driven by an unfulfilled desire for the unattainable ultimately indefinable Other the protagonists of the novels and stories of acclaimed Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector exemplify and humanize many of the issues central to poststructuralist thought from the nature of language truth and meaning to the unstable relationships between language being and reality. In this book Earl Fitz demonstrates that in turn poststructuralism offers important and revealing insights into all aspects of Lispector''s writing including her style sense of structure characters themes and socio-political conscience.Fitz draws on Lispector''s entire oeuvrenovels stories crnicas and children''s literatureto argue that her writing consistently reflects the basic tenets of poststructuralist theory. He shows how Lispector''s characters struggle over and humanize poststructuralist dilemmas and how their essential sense of being is deeply dependent on a shifting and typically transgressive sense of desire and sexuality.