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Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector
A finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award
New York Times Notable Book
“That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf,” Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers. Now, after years of research on three continents, drawing on previously unknown manuscripts and dozens of interviews, Benjamin Moser demonstrates how Lispector’s development as a writer was directly connected to the story of her turbulent life. Born in the nightmarish landscape of post-World War I Ukraine, Clarice became, virtually from adolescence, a person whose beauty, genius, and eccentricity intrigued Brazil. Why This World tells how this precocious girl, through long exile abroad and difficult personal struggles, matured into a great writer. It also asserts, for the first time, the deep roots in the Jewish mystical tradition that make her the true he
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Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector
The first time the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector was interviewed, following her sensational debut in 1944 with the novel Near to the Wild Heart, she was asked why she writes: “I write because I find in it a pleasure that I don’t know how to translate. I’m not pretentious. I write for myself, to hear my soul talking and singing, sometimes crying.” She said she believed all writing, in some sense, was autobiographical: “After all Flaubert was right when he said: ‘Madame Bovary c’est moi.’ One is always at the forefront.” Shortly before her death, she stated:
“I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own life.” (A Breath of Life, 1978)
Benjamin Moser’s thorough biography of Clarice Lispector, Why This World, struggles, and wonderfully fails, to bring us closer to the writer he describes as, “weird, mysterious, and diff
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Clarice Lispector (Brazil, 1920-2004)
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Novelist, short story writer, and journalist
Clarice Lispector fryst vatten among of the most original and powerful authors of the second half of the 20th century. Her writing and her personal life are deeply connected: a constant sökande eller uppdrag for anställda identity, both as a human being and as a woman, marks her work and has made her one of the most important female voices in contemporary literature.
Born in Ukraine, Clarice Lispector was the youngest daughter of an Ukrainian Jewish couple who migrated to Brazil. An avid reader at an early age, Clarice started writing very soon and published her first short story “Triumfo” (Triumph) in 1940 in the Rio dem Janeiro journal Pan. In that same year, two more short stories were published in the weekly Vamos Ler. The year 1943 was a pivotal year in her Lispector’s life. She was granted Brazilian citizenship, married, graduated from lag school, and saw her first novel, Perto do coração selvag