Writing by Ear

Clarice Lispector and the Aural Novel

Marilia Librandi

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English

University of Toronto Press
03 July 2018

Series: University of Toronto Romance Series

Considering Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector's literature as a case study and a source of theory, Writing by Ear presents an aural theory of the novel based on readings of Near to the Wild Heart (1943), The Besieged City (1949), The Passion According to G.H. (1964), Agua Viva (1973), The Hour of the Star (1977), and A Breath of Life (1978). What is the specific aesthetic for which listening-in-writing calls? What is the relation that listening-in-writing establishes with silence, echo, and the sounds of the world? How are we to understand authorship when writers present themselves as objects of reception rather than subjects of production? In which ways does the robust oral and aural culture of Brazil shape literary genres and forms? In addressing these questions, Writing by Ear works in dialogue with philosophy, psychoanalysis, and sound studies to contemplate the relationship between orality and writing.

Citing writers such as Machado de Assis, Oswald de Andrade and Joo Guimares Rosa, as well as Mia Couto and Toni Morrison, Writing By Ear opens up a broader dialogue on listening and literature, considering the aesthetic, ethical, and ecological reverberations of the imaginary. Writing by Ear is concerned at once with shedding light on the narrative representation of listening and with a broader reconceptualization of fiction through listening, considering it an auditory practice that transcends the dichotomy of speech and writing.

By: Marilia Librandi
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9781487502140
ISBN 10: 1487502141
Series: University of Toronto Romance Series
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 03 July 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: A Certain Intimate Sense 2. Writing by Ear 3. The Aural Novel 4. Hearing the Wild Heart 5. Loud Object 6. The Echopoetics of G.H. 7. Coda: Hearing Horses

Marilia Librandi is an assistant professor of Brazilian literature in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford. Visiting Professor at Princeton University.

Reviews for Writing by Ear: Clarice Lispector and the Aural Novel

"""In this book, Marília Librandi analyzes the juncture of the sonorous aspect of speech and the silent nature of reading, looking at what is produced between sounds and silence. By means of a wide theoretical discussion, as well as a close reading of Lispector in her relationship to the acts of writing and listening, Librandi avoids any false opposition between silence and sounds, and investigates that which she aptly calls the 'conjugation of these two moments - their friction.'"" - Pedro Meira Monteiro, Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University"