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Profile of Clarice Lispector
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Clarice Lispector |
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10th December 1925 |
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Tchetchelnik, Ukraine, Soviet Union |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Clarice Lispector (December 10, 1920 - December 9, 1977) was a Brazilian writer.
Considered perhaps the greatest Brazilian prose writer of the twentieth century, Clarice Lispector was born in Chechelnyk, a village in Ukraine and moved to Brazil when she was two years old. Her family first settled in Maceió, Alagoas, where her mother had family, and later moved to Recife, Pernambuco. After her mother's death, the family moved again, to Rio de Janeiro, where she studied law and married her classmate Maury Gurgel Valente. After he entered the diplomatic corps she moved to Europe, living in Naples, Berne, Torquay (England), and Washington. She returned to Brazil in 1959.
Her family was Jewish, and some scholars who have studied her books have found a great influence of the Jewish thought in some of her stories. In 1944 she published her first novel Perto do Coração 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. This novel, like all of her subsequent works, was marked by an intense focus on interior emotional states.
She died of cancer in 1977 just one day before her 57th birthday and she was buried in the Jewish Cemetery of Cajú, in Rio de Janeiro.
Her last famous novel is A Hora da Estrela, or The Hour of the Star, where the life of Macabéa, a poor woman living in Rio de Janeiro, is described by a narrator called Rodrigo S.M, a fictional writer. Written near the end of her life, A Hora da Estrela diverged from the themes and style of most of her work, instead directly and explicitly focusing on poverty and marginality in Brazil.
Her sister Elisa Lispector was also a respected Brazilian novelist.
Bibliography
- Perto do Coração Selvagem (1944) - Near the Wild Heart
- O Lustre (1946)
- A Cidade Sitiada (1949)
- Alguns Contos (1952)
- Laços de FamÃlia (1960) - Family Ties
- A Maçã no Escuro (1961)
- A Legião Estrangeira (1964) - Foreign Legion
- A Paixão segundo G.H. (1964)
- O Mistério do Coelho Pensante (1967)
- A mulher que matou os peixes (1968)
- Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres (1969)
- Felicidade Clandestina (1971)
- A imitação da rosa (1973)
- Ãgua Viva (1973) - The Stream of Life
- A Vida Ãntima 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 não 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 Coração (2001) (letters exchanged with Fernando Sabino)
- Correspondências (2002)
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