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Clarice Lispector


Born
in Tchetchelnik, Ukraine
December 10, 1920

Died
December 09, 1977

Genre
Fiction & Literature, Experimental, Classics

Influences
Hermann Hesse, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Baruch Spinoza ...more


Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, she was brought to Brazil as an infant, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War.

She grew up in northeastern Brazil, where her mother died when she was nine. The family moved to Rio de Janeiro when she was in her teens. While in law school in Rio she began publishing her first journalistic work and short stories, catapulting to fame at age 23 with the publication of her first novel, 'Near to the Wild Heart' (Perto do Coração Selvagem), written as an interior monologue in a style and language that was considered re ...more

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The Hour of the Star
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Água Viva
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4.24 avg rating — 29,728 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions
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The Passion According to G.H.
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Near to the Wild Heart
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An Apprenticeship or The Bo...
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A Breath of Life
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Family Ties
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The Complete Stories
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Felicidade Clandestina
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“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela
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“I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life
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“Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
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