Geography in Clarice Lispector's short story “The dead man in the sea at Urca”

Abstract

The relationship between Geography and Literature, distant since the post-Renaissance period, reappears, especially in the 20th century. In this sense, the geographer returns to the importance of the literary text as an active subject for understanding geographic space, surpassing the merely descriptive literature. It is towards achieving this objective that Clarice Lispector's work has a lot to contribute, considering its eminently spatial character. In the short story “O morto no mar da Urca”, the main character demonstrates the spatial duality that results, on the one hand, from the simultaneity of trivialized tragic events and, on the other, from banal events turned tragic. In this journey between the subjectivity and the objectivity of spatial reality, Clarice's work has a valuable contribution, if used for geographic knowledge.