Clarice Lispector

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born

December 10, 1920 in Tchetchelnik, Ukraine

died

December 09, 1977

gender

female

genre

Literature & Fiction, Romance, Short Stories

influences

James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Hermann Hesse

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Clarice escrevia desde que aprendeu a ler, em Recife, onde passou parte da sua infância. Seu primeiro romance, publicado em 1944, foi chamado Perto do Coração Selvagem. Na época, a literatura brasileira era dominada por romances regionalistas mas Clarice surpreendeu a crítica ao lançar romances existencialistas, claramente influenciados por James Joyce e Virginia Woolf.
Seu romance mais famoso é A Hora da Estrela, publicado antes de sua morte.
Clarice veio a falecer em 9 de dezembro de 1977, um dia antes de seu aniversário, de câncer.
Chegou a traduzir o livro Entrevista com o Vampiro da americana Anne Rice. Foi considerada o Kafka da literatura latino-americana pelo The New York Times em artigo publicado no dia 11 de março de 2005.

Clarice Lis...more Clarice escrevia desde que aprendeu a ler, em Recife, onde passou parte da sua infância. Seu primeiro romance, publicado em 1944, foi chamado Perto do Coração Selvagem. Na época, a literatura brasileira era dominada por romances regionalistas mas Clarice surpreendeu a crítica ao lançar romances existencialistas, claramente influenciados por James Joyce e Virginia Woolf.
Seu romance mais famoso é A Hora da Estrela, publicado antes de sua morte.
Clarice veio a falecer em 9 de dezembro de 1977, um dia antes de seu aniversário, de câncer.
Chegou a traduzir o livro Entrevista com o Vampiro da americana Anne Rice. Foi considerada o Kafka da literatura latino-americana pelo The New York Times em artigo publicado no dia 11 de março de 2005.

Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, she was brought to Brazil as an infant, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War.

She grew up in northeastern Brazil, 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 age 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.[citation needed]

She 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. Upon return to Rio de Janeiro in 1959, she began producing her most famous works, including the stories of Family Ties (Laços de Família) and the great mystic 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 until her premature death in 1977.

She 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 and she was the subject of a recent biography, Why This World, by Benjamin Moser.(less)

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Average rating: 4.02 · 4,134 ratings · 325 reviews · 59 distinct works

	The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator) 3.92 avg rating — 1,651 ratings — published 1977 — 22 editions	My rating:
	Passion according to G.H. by Clarice Lispector, Ronald W. Sousa (Translator) 4.24 avg rating — 471 ratings — published 1964 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Family Ties by Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 1960 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator) 4.11 avg rating — 228 ratings — 10 editions	My rating:
	Felicidade Clandestina 4.08 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 1971 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Stream Of Life by Clarice Lispector, Elizabeth Lowe (Translator), Earl Fitz (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 1980 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Aprendizaje O El Libro de Los Placeres 4.40 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 1969 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Soulstorm by Clarice Lispector, Alexis Levitin (Translator) 4.20 avg rating — 91 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Foreign Legion by Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator) 4.07 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Selected Cronicas: Essays by Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator) 4.42 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1996	My rating:

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Quotes by Clarice Lispector

“O que não sei dizer é mais importante do que o que eu digo.”
― Clarice Lispector

53 people liked it

“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
― Clarice Lispector, A Hora Da Estrela

48 people liked it

“The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.”
― Clarice Lispector, Passion according to G.H.

tags: music , silence , sound

33 people liked it

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Machado de Assis's Dom Casmurro plus The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

2 votes, 50.0%

Jorge Amado's Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands plus Tieta

1 vote, 25.0%

The two Anthologies, the Biography, and five novels (Agotime, The Alchemist, Dom Casmurro, Dona Flor, Hour of the Star)

1 vote, 25.0%

Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star plus The Passion According to G.H.

0 votes, 0.0%

An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Brazilian Poetry

0 votes, 0.0%

Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story

0 votes, 0.0%

Benjamin Moser's Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

0 votes, 0.0%

Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist plus The Zahir

0 votes, 0.0%

Judith I. Gleason's Agotime: Her Legend

0 votes, 0.0%

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