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140 Luso-BrazilianReview, 39/1
KatyaWesolowski
TeachersCollege, ColumbiaUniversity
Fitz, Earl. Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector.
The Differance of Desire. Austin: U of Texas P, 2001. xiii + 246 pp.
politicas nao foram percebidaspor muitos estudiosos de sua arte. Dessa maneira,afirma
Fitz, sua literaturaencena, ao mesmo tempo que nos imp6e, certasquest6es:
Given what, after Saussure, we know about language (its arbitraryand differential
relationshipto both materialand nominal reality and the relativityof meaning), how
should we live our lives? How should we relateto ourselves and to other people? On
what basis or justification do we make our decisions? (112)
greatest works [. . .] poignantly play out this most human of dramas, that of our
being fated to seek perfect understandingand knowledge by means of a mechanism
(language) that is inherentlyflawed, that cannot do what we want it to do, but from
which we cannot escape and without which we would not be what we are. (49)
Sonia Roncador
Universityof Illinois at Urbana-Champaign