Clarice Lispector in “Felicidade Clandestina” [Clandestine Happiness]: a Poetics of the Self

This article attempts to approximate two planes: reality and fantasy, in the story “Clandestine Happiness” published in the book with the same title. This story narrates the reality of an adult woman who explores childhood fantasies in a time in which she is subjected to cruel games of mockery, that...