Clarice Lispector and Stéphane Mallarmé: the orchestration of the murmur

Abstract

This article intends to show the contrasts  in the reading of the second version of “Sonnet allégorique de lui-même”, written by Stéphane Mallarmé, and of the short story “O ovo e a galinha”, by Clarice Lispector. The intention is, first of all, to explore in the aforementioned corpora, possible nuances in the canonical   interpretations of the poetic legacy of Mallarmé, drawing, in the point of intersection of the texts, another possibility for the comprehension of the literary: that of a space without a place; a nomadic space, with no debts to the positive speeches which configure stable objects in our ordinary vision. In short: to highlight the modes of existence established, in the artistic space of Literature, by the Brazilian fiction writer and the French poet, between the reasonable urgency of the solid speech and the dark power of silence. In one word: to see how they both live in this twighlight zone; how they both orchestrate the murmur their works are made of.