Receiving the Shock, Giving Form in Virginia Woolf and Clarice Lispector

Receiving the Shock, Giving Form in Virginia Woolf and Clarice Lispector

19 de April 15h30 – 17h  Room B112.D 

Speaker: Professor Flavia Trocoli (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) 

Lily Briscoe, the painter in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse [1927], finishes her painting in the absence of Mrs. Ramsay who, previously, had been the model for her vision and painting. G.H., sculptor and narrator-protagonist of The Passion According to G.H. [1964], by Clarice Lispector, is only able to write after killing, eating and vomiting the cockroach in the maid’s room. From these scenes, the relationships of homologies and differences will be addressed in what Virginia Woolf pointed out as the artist’s task: receiving the shock and giving form to it.