To undress and to dance, though... [Clarice Lispector and Pina Bausch]

Abstract

The article invites to think about Clarice Lispector’s writing as a dancing body, conducted by the language itself: language trying to be a body free from any external determination. Her literature is fluid, avoiding figurative features and steady sense leading discourse. The challenge is to abandon the norms of language using language, thus permitting to set literature laws aside. It is all about trying to make words sound in contact with music and dance, make words vibrate as in jazz improvisation, open for errs and harmony diversions, and making words dance freed from step by step syntactic order.