"A Bela e a Fera ou a ferida grande demais": considerações sobre o outro feminino

Abstract

The present research broaches the peculiarity of the feminine imaginary and its affections in the novella “La Belle et la Bête”, by the French writer Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and “A Bela e a Fera ou A Ferida Grande Demais”, by the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. It is not difficult to realize the distinctions among the production contexts of these works, neither conclude that the first one is a fairy tale and the second, a modern novella. However, what most call the attention in the analyzed novellas is how the alterity relationships in both narratives develop and the highlight given to the feminine character. In order to better analyze these facts, it will be held a dialogue with the studies about the feminine, as well as about fairy tales like the ones by Ruth Silviano Brandão, Marisa Lajolo, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Maria Ângela D’incao, Maria Rita Kehl, among others who lingered on the analysis of the feminine imaginary and its affections; Bruno Bettelheim, Nelly Novaes Coelho, Noemi Paz, Marie-Louise Von Franz, Verena Kast and others who devote themselves to the fairy tales studies and the ones accomplished by Bachelard, Durand, Lacan, Focault, Heidegger and Antonio Candido about some philosophical, psychoanalytic and sociologic questions that may be discussed from the narratives in study.