Shoes and the rhythm of the steps: notes on “Preciosidade”, by Clarice Lispector

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v51iesp.1439

Keywords:

Psychoanalysis, Literary criticism, Clarice Lispector

Abstract

This article proposes an analysis of the short story “Preciosidade”, by Clarice Lispector, which is part of the short story collection Laços de Família (1960). Supported by the essay Le scarpe rotte, by Natalia Ginzburg, and one of the chapters in L'amica geniale, by Elena Ferrante, such interpretation focuses on the recurrence of shoes as images of transition and mediation between the private and the external. In Lispector's story, they may be perceived as the necessary and painful displacement of one's home as the only reference of authority, just as the burden of responsibility that comes along with freedom.

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Author Biography

Iara Machado Pinheiro, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo,

Graduada em Comunicação Social pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e mestre em Letras (Teoria Literária) pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Atualmente é doutoranda em Letras (Estudos Literários e Culturais) no Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras Estrangeiras e Tradução da Universidade de São Paulo.

Published

2020-12-10

How to Cite

Pinheiro, I. M. (2020). Shoes and the rhythm of the steps: notes on “Preciosidade”, by Clarice Lispector. Revista Da Anpoll, 51(esp), 75–82. https://doi.org/10.18309/anp.v51iesp.1439

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Escritores e escritoras de Língua Portuguesa: Clarice Lispector