Facts without Literature Authors Mara Negrón Universidad de Puerto Rico Abstract From a deconstructionist point of view, literature is a kind of passion for saying everything. This freedom of speech which is the essence of literature constitutes the very idea of democracy, as well as the fictions entailed in this concept. Due to its passion for creation and imagination, literature has been the target of all kinds of censorship. Not in the same way as a “responsible” agent, but as something that always acts as a “witness”. From this perspective, I analyze La hora de la estrella (1977), by the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. This work reflects on a certain boundary of literature, establishing some kind of relationship between passion and the problem of sexual difference. A sentence of the male “author” of the novel captures the extraordinary complexity of Clarice Lispector’s thought: “Suddenly, I developed a passionate interest in facts without literature”. I’m interested in thinking about the passion of an inside of literature but without literature, as well as its relationshp with the political field. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2010-07-05 Issue No. 9 (2003): Les dones i les idees Section Dossier License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
