Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector was born on the 10 th December 1920; she died on the 9 th December 1977. She was a Brazilian writer said to be one of ...
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Clarice Lispector was born on the 10th December 1920; she died
on the 9th December 1977. She was a Brazilian writer said to be one
of the most crucial Jewish writer since Franz Kafka. She is known
internationally for the innovative novels she wrote and her short stories and
she was also a journalist of the country.
Clarice Lispector was born to a Jewish family in Podolia in the Western
part of the country, Ukraine; she was brought into Brazil when she was still
less than a year old because of the disaster that befell her native land after
the World War I.
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Clarice Lispector grew up in the city of Recife in Brazil and it was
there that her mother died when she was at the age of 9. Her family moved to
the city of Rio de Janeiro when she was at her teen age. When she was still in
the law school, Clarice Lispector started with the publishing of her first
short stories and journalistic works and she got fame at the age of 23, with
the publication of her first novel called Perto do Coração Selvagem, which was written in a pattern and a
language that was said to be revolutionary in the country.
Clarice Lispector moved out of the country in the year 1944, after her
marriage with the Brazilian diploma and she spent the next 15 years in Europe
and in the United States. When she came back to the city of Rio de Janeiro in
the year 1959, Clarice Lispector started producing her most famous works and
some of them are Laços de
Famíliam, A Paixão Segundo G.H. which was a great mystic book, Água Viva, which
was arguably the masterpiece of her works.
Clarice Lispector was injured in an accident in the year 1966 and she
spent the next 10 years of her life in pain, often writing and publishing
novels and stories until she died prematurely in the year 1977.
Awards and
honors
- 2013
Best Translated Book Award,
shortlist, A Breath of Life:
Pulsations[26]
Bibliography
Novels
Ø O Lustre (1946) - The Chandelier
Ø A Cidade Sitiada (1949) - The Besieged City
Ø A Maçã no Escuro (1961) The Apple in the Dark
Ø Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres
(1969) - An Apprenticeship or The Book
of Pleasures
Ø Água Viva (1973) - The Stream of Life
Ø Um Sopro de Vida (1978) - A Breath of Life
Short story
collections
Ø Alguns contos (1952) - Some Stories
Ø A legião estrangeira (1964) - The Foreign Legion
Ø Felicidade clandestina
(1971) - Covert Joy
Ø A imitação da rosa (1973) - The Imitation of the Rose. Includes
previously published material.
Ø A via crucis do corpo (1974) - The Via Crucis of the Body
Ø Onde estivestes de noite
(1974) - Where You Were at Night
Ø Para não esquecer (1978) - Not to Forget
Ø A bela e a fera (1979) - Beauty and the Beast
Children's
Literature
Ø O Mistério do Coelho Pensante
(1967) - The Mystery of the Thinking
Rabbit
Ø A mulher que matou os peixes
(1968) - The Woman Who Killed the Fish
Ø A Vida Íntima de Laura
(1974) - Laura's Intimate Life
Ø Quase de verdade (1978) - Almost True
Ø Como nasceram as estrelas: Doze lendas brasileiras
(1987) - How the Stars were Born:
Twelve Brazilian Legends
Journalism
and other shorter writings
Ø A Descoberta do Mundo (1984) - The Discovery of the World (named Selected Chronicas in the English
version). Lispector's newspaper columns in the Jornal do Brasil.
Ø Aprendendo
a viver (2004) – Learning to Live. A selection of columns from The Discovery of the World.
Ø Correio
feminino (2006) – Ladies' Mail. Selection of Lispector's texts, written
pseudonymously, for Brazilian women's pages.
Correspondence
Ø Correspondências (2002) - Correspondence
Ø Minhas queridas (2007) – My dears. Letters exchanged with her
sisters Elisa Lispector and Tania Lispector
Kaufmann.
