The love (and the woman): a (im)possible conversation between Clarice Lispector and Sartre

• Main Authors: Valeska Zanello, Regina Camargo
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
• Series: Revista Estudos Feministas
• Subjects: amor; mulher; Clarice Lispector; Sartre
• Online Access: http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-026X2008000100006&lng=en&tlng=en

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.