“Mineirinho” by Clarice Lispector, one reflection about violence

Abstract

This essay, about a literary text of Clarice Lispector, is a proposal
to explore some ideas about the nature of violence and its accomplishment,
strongly linked to another key concept: justice. This text seems to establish
a dialogue with another reflection about those concepts, this one written by
Walter Benjamin. Both texts, undoubtedly, were conceived from a current
concern: an understanding of what being fair means. That implies the
comprehension of another fact: going in search of justice touches the concept
of violence. But, most of us ignore almost all about this strong link, and most
of the times, instead of analysis, we hear alienating speeches from authoritative
institutions, such as religions and State, that make us suffer the consequences
of their banalization of the concept of justice.