O reverso do êxtase: silêncios e solavancos em A paixão segundo G. H. – a narrativa agônica na travessia do ser

Abstract

In The Passion According to GH, Clarice Lispector novel, published in 1964, to verify how is the disintegration mimetic narrative, occurs an everyday and trite situation - a woman, identified only as G. H, kill a cockroach - but this fact in the story takes many dimensions and results an existential quest of character. This quest unleash changes in the psychology of GH, which are reviewed in the study, in the light of Freudian theory, especially the theory of drive, the element "strange" and the pleasure principle. We also verify the process of abjection, Kristeva, and their correspondence in the narrative. The analysis is done by inserting the reading in an attempt to show as getting rid of the referential illusion and the failure of the narrative, which finds its limits in silence.