Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called “astounding” (Rachel Kushner), “a penetrating genius” (Donna Seaman, Booklist), and “a truly remarkable writer” (Jonathan Franzen). “Her images dazzle even when her meaning is most obscure,” noted the Times Literary Supplement, “and when she is writing of what she despises, she is lucidity itself.”
All Books By Clarice Lispector
The Complete Stories
- By: Clarice Lispector
- Narrator: various narrators
- Length: 22 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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4.36(1783 ratings)
Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. These stories cover her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don’t know what to do with themselves–and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives–and hers–and ours.
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- By: Clarice Lispector
- Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez
- Length: 23 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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4.52(26 ratings)
In the magnificent feast of Clarice Lispector’s books, her cronicas–short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces–are the delicious canapes.
“The things I’ve learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don’t know. Or maybe they do even when they don’t. There are various ways of knowing by not-knowing. I know: it happens to me too.”
The cronica, a literary genre peculiar to Brazilian newspapers, allows writers, or even soccer stars, to address a wide readership on any theme they like.
Chatty, mystical, intimate, flirtatious, and revelatory, Clarice Lispector’s pieces for the Saturday edition of Rio’s leading paper, the Jornal do Brasil, from 1967 to 1973, take the forms of memories, essays, aphorisms, and serialized stories. Endlessly delightful, her insights make one sit up and think, whether about children or social ills or pets or society women or the business of writing or love.
This new, beautifully translated work presents a new aspect of the great writer–at once off the cuff and spot on.
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