O deserto em A Paixão segundo G.H.: escavação do olhar

Abstract

This dissertation investigates the image of the desert in Clarice Lispector’s The Passion According to G.H. (1964), understanding it as the critical horizon of a disorienting visual experience. Through Georges Didi-Huberman’s (2010, 2013, 2015) reflections on the image and Walter Benjamin’s (2009, 2015) concepts of memory and archaeology, it formulates the hypothesis according to which the work constitutes an archaeological novel, in which the narrator’s gaze excavates the domestic space until revealing its aridity. Based on Gilles Deleuze’s (2012) propositions on smooth space (espace lisse) and nomadism, this research analyzes how G.H.’s deterritorialization transforms the former maid Janair's room into a desert territory, marked by anachronic inscriptions and the failure of fixed categories of vision.