ABSTRACT
In 1960, Francisco Alves Publishing House launched two books that would become essential for Brazilian literature since a postmodernist scenery: Laços de família, by Clarice Lispector, and Quarto de despejo, by Carolina Maria de Jesus. The aim of this article is to approach the two works, despite the differences of literary genre, style and of the issues they raise, as manifestations of a common time, written by women and expressive of a topic concerning lack, which is represented as void or hunger. Considering the books in their context of creation and publication also aims at understanding aspects of the representation of the author in a time when writer and literature were highly appreciated.
KEYWORDS:
Clarice Lispector; Carolina Maria de Jesus; lack; representation of the author; female authorship