I am not sure it is beautiful, but it is undeniably alive reflects on the exercise, in Clarice Lispector s literary writing, of the imperative of overcoming the fear of the ugly, as announced by the protagonist of The passion according to G.H. (1964). It proposes an approach between this novel and The via crucis of the body (1974), emphasizing the different ways in which both writings mobilize the same ugly feeling: disgust. The dissertation investigates how the different ways of arousing disgust employed by Clarice Lispector are capable of conferring a place of prestige to one text and relegating the other to the status of a minor work, mobilizing aspects such as reception and the circumstances surrounding the publication of the two books, the use of language and the social aspects addressed in them, and the games enacted between text and reader. Finally, the dissertation turns to what the two books have in common – the thread that connects them, not as works that claim to be final, but as exercises in approaching what is alive – and, consequently, organic, unfinished, imperfect, ugly.