Paralysis and transformation: the writing of potentiality in two short stories by Clarice Lispector

Abstract

The following article provides a possible interpretation of Clarice Lispector aesthetic project. Based on the analysis of the diegetic formulas and narrative devices that operate in two short stories, “Amor” (1964) and “La bella y la bestia” (1977), it pretends to demonstrate how her writing is shaped by the tension between paralysis and movement allowing her to create a new poetic that I have called “the writing of potentiality”.