{"product_id":"body-of-work-clarice-lispector-self-thing-voice","title":"body of work #1 | Clarice Lispector: the self, the thing, the voice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBoth in-person and Zoom tickets available. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClarice Lispector is one of those writers who resists being approached directly. Her work is fiction, but also philosophy, prayer, interruption, argument, confession, anti-confession, animal encounter, mystic joke, domestic horror, and experiment in what happens when consciousness gets too close to itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis series is part reading group, part discussion, part guided encounter with one of the strangest literary consciousnesses of the twentieth century. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAcross three sessions, we’ll read pieces across Lispector's body of work organised around recurring themes: the self, the thing, and the voice. Each session will centre on selected passages from Lispector’s work, with optional wider reading for those who want to go deeper. You do not need to have read all of Lispector before attending, and you do not need to attend all three sessions to participate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt will be held Wednesdays in Fitzroy North. Wednesday's, 22nd July, 29th July and the 5th August.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSession One | The Self\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWednesday 22nd July\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEarly Lispector, interiority, consciousness, girlhood, womanhood, becoming, unravelling. The self as trap, threshold, pressure system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this first session, we’ll look at Lispector’s early work and her treatment of consciousness: the feeling of being inside a self, being watched by oneself, becoming a person, resisting personhood, and thinking so intensely that the ordinary world begins to warp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLispector’s interiority is not soft or decorative. It is unstable, analytic, strange, sometimes violent. Her characters often appear to be having ordinary experiences — a domestic moment, a walk, a marriage, a social encounter — only for consciousness itself to become the event.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSession Two | The Thing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWednesday 29th July\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mystical \/ anti-mystical Lispector. The non-human, the cockroach, the animal, God, matter, disgust, revelation, the obscene real.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis session moves into Lispector’s encounters with the non-human and the almost unsayable: animals, insects, matter, God, flesh, disgust, revelation, and the breakdown of the human self in the face of something that cannot be neatly absorbed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the Lispector of the cockroach, the egg, the animal, the thing before language. Her revelations are not gentle spiritual uplift. They are often bodily, obscene, comic, annihilating, and difficult to distinguish from horror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSession Three | The Voice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWednesday 5th August\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLater Lispector, fragmentary writing, poverty, authorship, performance, narration. The writer, the character, the interruption, the ethical problem of telling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the final session, we’ll turn to Lispector’s later work and the problem of voice: who speaks, who is spoken for, who is invented, and what happens when narration itself becomes ethically unstable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis session will focus on authorship, poverty, performance, fragment, interruption, and the strange relationship between writer and character. Lispector’s late work often feels like it is undoing the novel while still needing the novel; making a voice while doubting the right to speak.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach session runs for 1.5 hours and will include a short introduction, guided close reading, group discussion, and optional reflective prompts. It will be held in Fitzroy North.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA reader will be provided before each session. The reader will include selected passages and contextual material. Full-book reading is welcome, but not required. You can come having read everything, a little, or simply arrive ready to listen and think.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is not a formal lecture course, and no prior knowledge of Lispector or literary theory is required.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho Is This For?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReaders, writers, artists, overthinkers, Lispector obsessives, Lispector beginners, people interested in literary strangeness, consciousness, mysticism, animals, gender, authorship, and the problem of being alive in language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou are welcome to attend one session as a standalone event, or come to all three for the full series arc.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"All Sessions | Standard","offer_id":45714408177747,"sku":null,"price":95.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"All Sessions | Students \/ Unwaged","offer_id":45714408210515,"sku":null,"price":65.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"All Sessions | Zoom \/ Online","offer_id":45714408243283,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Session 1 | Standard","offer_id":45714408276051,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Session 1 | Students \/ Unwaged","offer_id":45714408308819,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Session 1 | Zoom\/Online","offer_id":45714408341587,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Session 2 | Standard","offer_id":45714401525843,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Session 2 | Students \/ Unwaged","offer_id":45714401624147,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Session 2  | Zoom \/ Online","offer_id":45714401656915,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Session 3 | Standard","offer_id":45714401558611,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Session 3 | Students \/ Unwaged","offer_id":45714401591379,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Session 3 | Zoom \/ Online","offer_id":45714401689683,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/bring_dogs_babies_grandparents_19.png?v=1781786727","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/body-of-work-clarice-lispector-self-thing-voice","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}