Clarice Lispector

Lispector in 1969 Clarice Lispector (born Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector (; ) December 10, 1920December 9, 1977) was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her innovative, idiosyncratic works explore a variety of narrative styles with themes of intimacy and introspection, and have subsequently been internationally acclaimed. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, as an infant she moved to Brazil with her family, amidst the pogroms committed by Soviet authorities after the First World War.

Lispector grew up in Recife, the capital of the northeastern state of Pernambuco, where her mother died when she was nine. The family moved to Rio de Janeiro when she was in her teens. While in law school in Rio, she began publishing her first journalistic work and short stories, catapulting to fame at the age of 23 with the publication of her first novel, ''Near to the Wild Heart'' (''Perto do Coração Selvagem''), written as an interior monologue in a style and language that was considered revolutionary in Brazil.

Lispector left Brazil in 1944 following her marriage to a Brazilian diplomat, and spent the next decade and a half in Europe and the United States. After returning to Rio de Janeiro in 1959, she published the stories of ''Family Ties'' (''Laços de Família'') and the novel ''The Passion According to G.H.'' (''A Paixão Segundo G.H.''). Injured in an accident in 1966, she spent the last decade of her life in frequent pain, steadily writing and publishing novels and stories, including ''Água Viva'', until her premature death in 1977.

Lispector has been the subject of numerous books, and references to her and her work are common in Brazilian literature and music. Several of her works have been turned into films. In 2009, the American writer Benjamin Moser published ''Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector.'' Since that publication, her works have been the object of an extensive project of retranslation, published by New Directions Publishing and Penguin Modern Classics, the first Brazilian to enter that prestigious series. Moser, who is also the editor of her anthology ''The Complete Stories'' (2015), describes Lispector as the most important Jewish writer in the world since Franz Kafka. Provided by Wikipedia
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  1. 1

    Un aprendizaje, o, el libro de los placeres / by Lispector, Clarice

    Published 1973
    Book
  2. 2

    La legión extranjera : cuentos y crónicas / by Lispector, Clarice

    Published 1971
    Book
  3. 3

    El vía crucis del cuerpo / by Lispector, Clarice

    Published 1975
    Book
  4. 4

    Agua viva / by Lispector, Clarice

    Published 1975
    Book
  5. 5

    Aguas de mar / by Lispector, Clarice

    Article
  6. 6

    Revelación de un mundo / by Lispector, Clarice, 1920-1970

    Published 2008
    Book
  7. 7

    La araña / by Lispector, Clarice, 1920-1970

    Published 2012
    Book
  8. 8

    La manzana en lo oscuro / by Lispector, Clarice, 1920-1970

    Published 2012
    Book
  9. 9

    La hora de la estrella / by Lispector, Clarice, 1920-1970

    Published 2013
    Book
  10. 10

    Cuentos reunidos / by Lispector, Clarice, 1920-1970

    Published 2008
    Book
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    El vía crucis del cuerpo / by Lispector, Clarice, 1920-1970

    Published 2015
    Book
  12. 12

    Un soplo de vida : Pusaciones / by Lispector, Clarice, 1920-1970

    Published 2015
    Book
  13. 13

    La pasión según G. H. / by Lispector, Clarice, 1920-1970

    Published 2010
    Book
  14. 14

    Para no olvidar : crónicas y otros textos / by Lispector, Clarice, 1920-1970

    Published 2011
    Book
  15. 15

    Lazos de familia / by Lispector, Clarice, 1920-1970

    Published 2010
    Book
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    Agua viva / by Lispector, Clarice, 1920-1970

    Published 2015
    Book
  17. 17

    La legión extranjera / by Lispector, Clarice, 1920-1970

    Published 2011
    Book
  18. 18

    Legião estrangeira / by Lispector, Clarice, 1920-1977

    Published 1982
    Book
  19. 19

    Der Apfel im Dunkeln : Roman / by Lispector, Clarice, 1920-1977

    Published 1983
    Book
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    Laços de família : contos / by Lispector, Clarice, 1920-1977

    Published 1998
    Book