Abstract
Considering that the human-animal division also produces frameworks that determine which lives are killable and which lives are worthy of living well, this paper analyzes Clarice Lispector’s writing in conversation with Judith Butler and Jacques Derrida, with special attention to the inscription of precariousness and animal death in tales such as “Ir para” (1967) “Morte de uma baleia” (1968) and “O crime do professor de matemática” (1960). This investigation points out that Clarice Lispector’s fictional production highlights precariousness as an element that permeates all beings, regardless of species, emphasizing that the exercise of mourning and availability for the other, when activated without hierarchical modulations, constitutes a gesture capable of allowing us to glimpse a way of life that is not centered on the human figure.
Keywords:
Clarice Lispector; grief; animality