The archive that does not stop... Writing and repetition in La pasión según G. H. by Clarice Lispector

Abstract

A certain type of writing seems to contain within itself the need to “repeat” the occurrence of experience. However, the repetition that involves the occurrence contains an impossibility: to return to that something lived and, in this sense, to represent it. Paradoxically, it is in the language, and very particularly in the writing, where that power that entails repetition is glimpsed as an echo of the impossibility of its registration. That area of repetition that does not include meaning, is inscribed as a footprint through a writing that, although it does not represent, lets read a multiplicity of meanings that refers to a certain negativity, that is, that allows us to approach, in a failed way, to what is not seen. The purpose of this essay is to read in La pasión según G.H. (1964), by Clarice Lispector, the scriptural possibilities that speak of an experience that cannot be represented and that, despite this, is manifested through the traces of the Real that writing allows.