The body's via crucis - by Clarice Lispector

Published for the first time in 1974, the 13 short stories that make up A via crucis do corpo, by Clarice Lispector, are preceded by an explanation by the author. She says that the stories were made to order and that, contrary to her initial wishes, she accepted the task on pure impulse. He tried to sign it with the pseudonym Cláudio Lemos, but ended up succumbing to the argument that he should have the freedom to write whatever he wanted. And that's what he did, in a single weekend. But he noted: "If there are indecencies in the stories, it's not my fault." There is nothing immoral about the via crucis of the body; It is, first of all, a crack in the social prison that keeps the woman – the conductor of all the stories – supposedly distant from her desires and fantasies. Or burdens, like virginity. What Clarice did was just describe, in a light and humorous way, some of these blessed transgressions. But as in all of her work, the author makes space to talk about the deepest feelings and the sincere idiosyncrasies of the soul. In "The Man Who Appeared", she comes across Cláudio Brito, a great poet transformed into human trash, and relativizes failure: "But who can honestly say that they have achieved success in life? Success is a lie." In the opening of "For now", Clarice becomes cruel: "As he had nothing to do, he went to make a fuss. And then he was at zero." Continuously, warn that life has these things, from time to time there is nothing left inside us. But it's good to pay attention because this only happens while you live. The via crucis of the body, like the other titles by Clarice Lispector re-released by Rocco, received new graphic treatment and underwent rigorous text review, carried out by specialist in textual criticism Marlene Gomes Mendes, based