Clarice Lispector

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born

in Tchetchelnik, Ukraine

December 10, 1920

died

December 09, 1977

gender

female

genre

Fiction & Literature, Existentialism, Classics

influences

Hermann Hesse, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Baruch Spinoza

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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.
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 fo...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.
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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	The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator) 3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 2,846 ratings — published 1977 — 22 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector, Ronald W. Sousa (Translator) 4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 870 ratings — published 1964 — 16 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Family Ties by Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator) 3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 560 ratings — published 1960 — 16 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Felicidade Clandestina 4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 379 ratings — published 1971 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator) 4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 510 ratings — published 2012 — 12 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stream Of Life by Clarice Lispector, Elizabeth Lowe (Translator), Earl Fitz (Translator) 4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 462 ratings — published 1980 — 13 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aprendizaje O El Libro de Los Placeres 4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 281 ratings — published 1969 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Descoberta do Mundo 4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1984 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Foreign Legion by Clarice Lispector, Giovanni Pontiero (Translator) 4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soulstorm by Clarice Lispector, Alexis Levitin (Translator) 4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.”
― Clarice Lispector, Stream Of Life

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“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

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

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