The word in fourth dimension: reading of "Água viva", by Clarice Lispector

Abstract

The reading and writing process intermediated by the most recent Água Viva edition is the object of attention in this essay, which focuses Clarice Lispector’s piece of work, understood as a quite introspective text. I have analyzed it considering its behavior as discourse and how the impression of introspection emanates from it and is evaluated by the graphic object that fashions it, including the paratexts that present and manipulate its reception. From a personal (and subjective) reading experience, I try to denude the esthetics-literary phenomena, in its dependence on the author-text-reader triangle as well as on its graphic issues.