Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector (December 10 1920 - December 9 1977) was a Brazilian writer.

She was born in Chechelnyk, a village in Ukraine and moved to Brazil when she was 2 months old. In 1944 she published her first novel Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem (Close to the Wild Heart). When the novel was published, many claimed that her stream-of-consciousness writing style was under heavy influence of Virginia Woolf or James Joyce, but she had read neither of these authors.

She died of cancer in 1977 just one day before her 57th birthday and she was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? Rio de Janeiro.

Her most famous novel is A Hora da Estrela, or The Hour of the Star, where the life of Macab顬 a poor woman in Rio de Janeiro, is written called Rodrigo S.M, a fictional writer.

Bibliography

  • Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem (1944) - Near the Wild Heart
  • O Lustre (1946)
  • A Cidade Sitiada (1949)
  • Alguns Contos (1952)
  • La篳 de Fam�a (1960) - Family Ties
  • A Ma磠no Escuro (1961)
  • A Legi㯠Estrangeira (1964) - Foreign Legion
  • A Paix㯠segundo G.H. (1964)
  • O Mist鲩o do Coelho Pensante (1967)
  • A mulher que matou os peixes (1968)
  • Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres (1969)
  • Felicidade Clandestina (1971)
  • A imita磯 da rosa (1973)
  • ?ua Viva (1973) - The Stream of Life
  • A Vida ͮtima de Laura (1974)
  • A Via-crucis do Corpo (1974)
  • Onde estivestes de Noite? (1974)
  • A hora da Estrela (1977) - The Hour of the Star
  • Para n㯠Esquecer (1978)
  • Quase de Verdade (1978)
  • Um Sopro de Vida (1978)
  • A Bela e a Fera (1979)
  • A Descoberta do Mundo (1984)
  • Como Nasceram as Estrelas (1987)
  • Cartas perto do Cora磯 (2001) (letters exchanged with Fernando Sabino)
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