CLARICE LISPECTOR’S ÁGUA VIVA AND LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN’S PHILOSOPHY

LITERARY-PHILOSOPHICAL INTERSECTIONS

Abstract

The objective of this study is to discuss, based on the aesthetic-fictional construction of Água viva, by Clarice Lispector, some possible intersections with traces of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophical thought, developed in his Tratado lógico-filosófico as well as in Investigações filosóficas. As a hypothesis, Água viva is advocated as an intricate fictional text, whose aesthetics presents referential perspectives that shift the language from the state of saying to that of showing, bringing traces of the pictorial theory of phrase and of language games proposed in Wittgenstein’s analytical philosophies. As a consequence, through linguistic experimentation and fiction, Lispector allows the reader to follow a literary writing that speculates a possible ontological relationship between the world, language and thought.