Action writing, action body

Abstract

In A hora da estrela, Clarice Lispector'slast novel, from 1977, the narrator  Rodrigo  S.M  affirms  that  from  the  junction  of  words  that  form sentences  a  secret  meaning  emerges,  and  that  he  writes  with  his  body. This  secret  meaning  seems  to  be  close  to  what  Jacques  Rancière  calls  art politics.  For the  theorist,  art  has  its  own  policy,  which  competes  with the political discipline and which predates the artists' will. In this way, art does not    produce    knowledge    for    politics,    but    rather    dissent,    a    specific experience, which resultsfromthe  engenderingbetween  the  visible  and the    non-visible,    the    sayable    and    the    non-sayable.    What    is    worth mentioning is that the imposed tension is not resolved. This tensionis part of the common sensiblespace. It is a question, then, of thinking about how these  bodies  are  intertwined  in  writing,  parts  of  an  act  that  occurs  in  the undecidable  politics  of  art.  Literature  involves  the  body  and  must  not speak, specifically, about political situations to be political, must not speak, specifically,  about  the  existence  or  the  human  construction/occupation  of the world to be considered thought. Writing is political as it shuffles genres, speeches, subjects, languages, places. The purpose  of  this work is to think of this body present in the novel by Clarice Lispector as a political action.