Truth as a question in Clarice Lispector's A paixao segundo G.H./A verdade como questao em A paixao segundo G H., de Clarice Lispector

• Published in: Soletras (São Gonçalo) Vol. 15; no. 30; p. 265
• Main Authors: Torres, Ana Maria Ferreira, Ferraz, Antonio Maximo Gomes
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro- Uerj 01.07.2015
• ISSN: 2316-8838; 2316-8838
• DOI: 10.12957/soletras.2015.18517

This paper aims to investigate how is the question truth is unveiled in Clarice Lispector's A paixao segundo G.H. We understand that the literary work is characterized by the unveiling of ontological questions that cannot be defined, for example, life, death, freedom, good, evil, destiny, and in our case, the truth. Each work presents a original thought of the questions it presents. The character G. H. was used to the beauty of additions, for example, the concepts she had built for herself, in order not to need to question herself. When she finds a cockroach in an empty room of her apartment, however, G.H. is brought to question her notion of truth as correctness and adequacy of thought (corresponding to the greek word orthotes and to the latin word veritas) to consider the truth as disclosure (correspondent to the greek term aletheia). This is the change that leads the crossing of the character. It was used as method the phenomenological hermeneutic interpretation of the work, i.e. the reading of the literary work from the questions itself reveals, avoiding to resort to prior theories on the happening of the art itself. We dialogued with thinkers such as Martin Heidegger, Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, among others.