Posthumously published novels are a curious genre: Lacking the final sheen of a carefully edited work, they are like unpolished gems - their value and beauty not immediately clear. It seems especially ...

If you want to understand the stories of the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector, the best thing to do is just dive in. The more than 80 stories gathered here for the first time display an uncanny ...

Clarice Lispector (photo courtesy of Ben Moser and New Directions) “How do I know?” asks a character standing in for author Clarice Lispector in “Before the Rio–Niterói Bridge,” included in New ...

When Clarice Lispector was writing Near to the Wild Heart and a friend suggested she revise sections, she responded: "When I reread what I've written, I feel like I'm swallowing my own vomit." On ...

The writer Clarice Lispector earned that strange and occasional honor of fame: She became known by her first name alone. To this day, people call her “Clarice,” and something can even be described as ...

Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) was a beloved Brazilian novelist whose contantly surprising, experimental prose was beloved by mid-century English-language writers like Elizabeth Bishop, but little ...

Oxford University Press, 496 pages, $29.95. Clarice Lispector was, in her own words, “guilty from birth, she who was born with the mortal sin.” She also was one of the past century’s greatest writers.

Clarice Lispector in the 1970s (Museu-Arquivo de Literatura Brasileira/Paulo Gurgel Valente) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...

Colm Tóibín on how all the Brazillian author's talents and eccentricities come together in her most famous, final novella about a poor typist in Rio In January 1963, Elizabeth Bishop wrote to Robert ...

In 1948, Clarice Lispector wrote a moving letter to her sister Tania, offering some pointed advice: "Have the courage to transform yourself," she wrote, "to do what you desire." It's a fairly simple ...