Right to the city

memories of Recife in Clarice Lispector’s stories

Abstract

The aspects of the city reverberated both In Clarice Lispector’s social actions and In her literary production, especially In the so-called “memory short stories” (Gotlib, 1995, p. 81), such as the short narratives “One hundred years of forgiveness” and “Clandestine happiness”, both taken from the book Clandestine happiness (1971). From them, it is possible to extract representations of the city of Recife during the mid-20th century, as well as the simple childhood of the writer-citizen. Therefore, this paper aims to relate the aforementioned stories to the concept of “right to the city”, proposed by Henri Lefebvre. To this end, the aesthetics of reception and jurisliterary mediation will be adopted, with the aim of understanding how Clarice’s memory narratives perceive the crisis of traditional urban space and how they are linked to the desires for new social forms of construction of the city In connection with art. The methodology used is qualitative with a phenomenological character, anchored In bibliographical research.