Who was Clarice Lispector? Readers who are not Brazilian may be forgiven for asking. I first encountered Lispector (1920–77) in the late 1970s, when she was taken up and celebrated by exponents of ...

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Women of the World: Clarice Lispector and breaking the bounds of literature olm Tóibín described Ukrainian-Brazilian author Clarice Lispector as having “an ability to write as though no one had ever ...

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Within “Jimmy and I”, or “ Eue e Jimmy ”, Lispector narrates in the feminine voice; a woman with more agency than Macabea, barely tolerating a young man named Jimmy. In this four-page long ...

Clarice Lispector’s Cosmology To understand the philosophical dimensions of her fiction you must read her 1961 novel The Apple in the Dark.

Abstract This article aims to investigate whether Clarice’s radical use of language was somehow achieved in translations and especially in the retranslations of her work into English, or whether this ...

Whose door […]’ Clarice Lispector, The Apple in the Dark, cover photo. Courtesy: New Directions Whereas Rabassa elegantly transposes the content of Clarice’s gist to English, easing our understanding, ...

Claudia Andujar, Retratos de Clarice Lispector [Portraits of Clarice Lispector], 1961. Courtesy: the artist and Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo Some of the visual artists featured in the exhibition were ...

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