Clarice Lispector was a woman plagued by “the hellish grandeur of life.” Throughout her career the Brazilian author and journalist showed a fascination for the mundane, as well as a desperation to ...

In 1948, Clarice Lispector wrote a moving letter to her sister Tania, offering some pointed advice: "Have the courage to transform yourself," she wrote, "to do what you desire." It's a fairly simple ...

“Behold us nearly here, coming down the long path,” Clarice Lispector writes in the story “The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels.” “An angel’s fall is a direction.” For almost all of New ...

On the eve of Clarice Lispector’s one hundredth birthday, which will officially be celebrated on December 10, a series of events has already begun in her honor. Lispector, (1920–1977) is the author of ...

The avant-garde Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector (1920-77) is little known in America, where only a handful of her many books have been issued in translation, but back home she is literary royalty ...

The writer Clarice Lispector earned that strange and occasional honor of fame: She became known by her first name alone. To this day, people call her “Clarice,” and something can even be described as ...

Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) was a beloved Brazilian novelist whose contantly surprising, experimental prose was beloved by mid-century English-language writers like Elizabeth Bishop, but little ...

Why This World, Benjamin Moser's biography of Clarice Lispector, out this month from Oxford University Press, examines the life and work of a prolific and reputedly brilliant writer—whom you likely ...

On the very first page of the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector’s “The Complete Stories,” she signals that hers was never an ordinary sensibility, but one capable of perceiving anxiety and menace in ...

Oxford University Press, 496 pages, $29.95. Clarice Lispector was, in her own words, “guilty from birth, she who was born with the mortal sin.” She also was one of the past century’s greatest writers.

Last year “Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector” (Oxford University Press) appeared to qualified praise. Readers and critics alike took issue with the biographer’s otiose portrait of ...

If you want to understand the stories of the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector, the best thing to do is just dive in. The more than 80 stories gathered here for the first time display an uncanny ...