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560 pages, Paperback
Published November 5, 2025
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Clarice Lispector
259 books10.1k followersClarice 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 revolutionary in Brazil.
She left Brazil in 1944, following her marriage to a Brazilian diplomat, and spent the next decade and a half in Europe and the United States. Upon return to Rio de Janeiro in 1959, she began producing her most famous works, including the stories of Family Ties (Laços de Família), the great mystic novel The Passion According to G.H. (A Paixão Segundo G.H.), and the novel many consider to be her masterpiece, Água Viva. Injured in an accident in 1966, she spent the last decade of her life in frequent pain, steadily writing and publishing novels and stories until her premature death in 1977.
She has been the subject of numerous books and references to her, and her works are common in Brazilian literature and music. Several of her works have been turned into films, one being 'Hour of the Star' and she was the subject of a recent biography, Why This World, by Benjamin Moser.
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 revolutionary in Brazil.
She left Brazil in 1944, following her marriage to a Brazilian diplomat, and spent the next decade and a half in Europe and the United States. Upon return to Rio de Janeiro in 1959, she began producing her most famous works, including the stories of Family Ties (Laços de Família), the great mystic novel The Passion According to G.H. (A Paixão Segundo G.H.), and the novel many consider to be her masterpiece, Água Viva. Injured in an accident in 1966, she spent the last decade of her life in frequent pain, steadily writing and publishing novels and stories until her premature death in 1977.
She has been the subject of numerous books and references to her, and her works are common in Brazilian literature and music. Several of her works have been turned into films, one being 'Hour of the Star' and she was the subject of a recent biography, Why This World, by Benjamin Moser.
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August 22, 2026
cuentos tan bien inventados que solo la verdad les faltaba para ser verdaderos. cuentos de mujeres golpeadas por el sol, arropadas por la luna, protegidas por el delirio y la cadencia de olas blancas y espumosas, de almas elásticas por unos momentos, despertadas por la cruenta luz del día, tendidas sobre la tierra, cansadas de existir.
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Leerlos se siente como cuando después de llevar varias horas tirada en la cama aburrida viendo shorts de youtube una fuerza extraña se sobrepone a tu lasitud y entonces te levantas, pero ese brote de hiperactividad termina dos pasos después cuando llegas al espejo de tu baño y entonces te miras muy fijamente,
y primero te reconoces,
y al siguiente segundo te empiezas a extrañar,
cada vez más,
cada vez más,
cada vez más,
hasta que te das mucho miedo y te dan ganas de pegarte dos bofetadas asustada de ti misma y vuelves otra vez a tu cama cantando con ese tarareo del que no quiere oír su mente.
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