Books
‘Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector’ by Benjamin Moser
Aug. 2, 2009
Entertainment & Arts
A writer who forged a unique identity in between worlds.
New translations of Clarice Lispector novels include the posthumous assemblage ‘A Breath of Life,’ ‘Near to the Wild Heart,’ ‘Agua Viva.’
May 27, 2012
Clarice Lispector: Four novels form a picture of Brazil novelist
For decades, the brilliant Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector was hidden from American readers by awful translations that erased her dense, challenging prose (think James Joyce).
June 13, 2019
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May 25, 2012
Soul Storm by Clarice Lispector; translated from Portuguese by Alexis Levitin (New Directions: $19.95; 174 pages) For Christianity, redemption required incarnation; a scandalous arrangement whereby a universal and immaterial God put on the flesh, sweat, facial hair and other material indignities of the forked biped.
June 23, 1989
June 28, 2010
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector, translated by Giovanni Pontiero (Carcanet: $15.95) “The Hour of the Star” is only one of 13 possible titles for Clarice Lispector’s ghostly and captivating account of the life and death of a Rio de Janeiro waif.
April 9, 1986
Inside: Inherent Vice: A Novel by Thomas Pynchon, Essay on surveillance (The Peep Diaries by Hal Niedzvicki), Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser, Ground Up: A Novel by Michael Idov, In This Way I Was Saved: A Novel by Brian DeLeeuw, Mouroir and Voice Over both by Breyten Breytenbach, Stupid Hope: Poems by Jason Shinder, American Romances: Essays by Rebecca Brown, The Perfect Fruit by Chip Brantley, Following the Water by David M.
April 5, 2019