DEMITIFYING THE VALUES ​​OF MOTHERHOOD IN THE FICTION OF ELISA LISPECTOR

Abstract

This paper proposes to discuss the subversion of motherhood in the book O Muro de Pedras, by Elisa Lispector, published in 1963. In this novel, through the protagonist Marta, the author problematizes the female condition and motherhood, presenting a woman who demonstrates feeling a great existential emptiness and a certain unbelief in life that can be perceived through the feeling of sadness and loneliness present in the narrative, which drags it towards a possible feeling of misfit before the world. For this investigation, we will resort to some reflections present in Literary Criticism that analyze the values ​​of motherhood as in Elisabeth Badinter, which broadens the debate about the role of women in raising children, demystifying the conventions created in society. We also investigated theories that discuss the female condition and the representation of women in contemporary times, such as the case of Nádia Batella Gotlib and Mary Del Priore, among other themes that will assist in the analysis of the object investigated here. With that, we reinserted Elisa Lispector in the Brazilian literary scene, aiming at a resignificant look about her writing.

KEYWORDS: Female. Maternity. Elisa Lispector.