Dimensions of the Impersonal in Clarice Lispector: Ecstasy, Horror, Solidarity [Hardcover]

This book explores Clarice Lispector's work through the lens of affirmative biopolitics, highlighting the ontological and ethical deadlock between personality and impersonality. It analyzes her complex anthropological vision and its metaphysical implications, focusing on themes of mystical and messianic nature rooted in Jewish tradition.

Sawalas journey into impersonality in Lispectors work offers a profound insight on the hiatus between subjectivity and life itself, that is, the inhuman areas of existence. His singular analysis enhances our understanding of modernist literature while illuminating significant ethical implications. It is, thus, an essential contribution to contemporary literary debates.

?Diana Klinger,?Associate Professor of Literary Theory, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

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With a fresh and au courant theoretical approach, this study underscores incisively and masterfully Clarice Lispectors ideological concerns regarding the invisible and unjust social and racial relations in Brazil which, for the most part, have heretofore been critically scant or neglected in her work.

?Nelson H. Vieira,?University Professor and Professor of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies and Judaic Studies, Brown University, USA

This book explores the fictional work of Clarice Lispector (19201977), the eminent twentieth-century Brazilian writer. It employs the theoretical framework of affirmative biopolitics by Roberto Esposito, engaging with Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, alongside voices like Mircea Eliade, Anthony Giddens, and Agata Bielik-Robson. The focus is on rethinking and valuing impersonality, crucial for understanding the anthropological, metaphysical, ethical, and political implications in Lispector's works. The main thesis posits that LislC£