“Brilliant and unclassifiable...Glamorous, cultured, moody, Lispector is an emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same pantheon as Kafka and Joyce.”
— Edmund White on Clarice Lispector's Água Viva
“Brilliant and unclassifiable...Glamorous, cultured, moody, Lispector is an emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same pantheon as Kafka and Joyce.”
— Edmund White on Clarice Lispector's Água Viva
20th Century Brazilian Writer
Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) was Brazilian journalist, translator and author of fiction. Born in Western Ukraine into a Jewish family who suffered greatly during the pogroms of the Russian Civil War, she was still an infant when her family fled the disastrous post-World War I situation for Rio de Janiero. At twenty-three, she became famous for her novel, Near to the Wild Heart, and married a Brazilian diplomat. She spent much of the forties and fifties in Europe and the United States, helping soldiers in a military hospital in Naples during World War II and writing, before leaving her husband and returning to Rio in 1959. Back home, she completed several novels including The Passion According to G.H. and The Hour of the Star before her death in 1977 from ovarian cancer.
Near to the Wild Heart
A Breath of Life
Água Viva
The Passion According to G.H.
The Hour of The Star
Selected Cronicas
The Foreign Legion
Soulstorm
“Lispector is one of the hidden geniuses of twentieth century literature, in the same league as Flann O'Brien, Borges and Pessoa...utterly original and brilliant, haunting and disturbing.”
— Colm Tóibín on Clarice Lispector's
“One of the twentieth century's most mysterious writers in all her vibrant colours.”
— Orhan Pamuk on Clarice Lispector's
“Over time, I’ve come to admire and even love this novel. In fact, as soon as I slammed the book shut, my understanding of G.H.’s story began to take on an almost-corporeal reality. ”
— Emma Komlos-Hrobsky, Tin House on Clarice Lispector's
“A new translation of The Hour of the Star by Lispector's biographer Benjamin Moser reveals the mesmerizing force of the revitalized modernist’s Rio-set tale of a young naïf, who, along with the piquantly intrusive narrator, challenges the reader’s notions of identity, storytelling, and love.”
— Megan O’Grady, Vogue.com on Clarice Lispector's The Hour of The Star
“The only antidote to stupidity is an agitated intelligence constantly prowling for blank spots in one’s outward seeming. The Hour of the Star is a romance, then, between stupidity and its neurotic observer, a restless stretching away from form, tradition, and the stupefying rules they impose on writing.”
— The New Inquiry on Clarice Lispector's The Hour of The Star
“A truly remarkable writer.”
— Jonathan Franzen on Clarice Lispector's
“...filled with jagged, jerky odd, and utterly compelling prose, which is how it should be according to Moser.”
— Craig Morgan Teicher, Publishers Weekly on Clarice Lispector
“Lispector's intensity makes her a natural short story writer...”
— Times Literary Supplement on Clarice Lispector's The Foreign Legion
“Nineteen forty-three saw the publication of the 23-year-old Lispector’s first novel. It was called Near to the Wild Heart, and it was an overnight sensation. ”
— The New York Times Book Review on Clarice Lispector's
“One might have thought that so stern a 'new novelist' would scorn the chatty style required. Far from it: Lispector discovered her own extraordinary idiom–intimate, revelatory, mystificatory. This flirtation with her readers was a triumphant metamorphosis for the avant-garde author.”
— Times Literary Supplement on Clarice Lispector's Selected Cronicas
Richard Swartz
Luis Verissimo
Enrique Vila-Matas
Corrado Alvaro
Alfred Andersch
Roberto Bolaño
Horacio Castellanos Moya