Clarice Lispector, Author Carcanet Press, $0 (96p) ISBN 978-0-85635-626-1
The narrative material of this short, almost weightless tale by the late Brazilian writer (19251977) is reminiscent of old-fashioned naturalism, but the intention is far from that. Macabea, a young woman from the backwoods, arrives in bewildering...
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Clarice Lispector, trans. from the Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz. New Directions, $14.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1962-4
One in a series of four new translations, this is the first time this posthumous book from one of Brazil's most renowned writers has been translated into English. The novel is a lyrical and expertly rendered schizoid duet comprising the exchanges...
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Clarice Lispector, Trans. from the Portuguese by Katrina Dodson. New Directions, $28.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1963-1
Reviewed by Valeria LuiselliIn the only footage that exists of Clarice, as fellow Brazilians affectionately refer to her, she looks at her interviewer with a bewildering combination of innocence, rage, and nonchalance and tells him: "I insist on not
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Clarice Lispector, trans. from Portuguese by Stefan Tobler. New Directions, $22.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-8112-3061-2
Lispector’s dense and singular romance (after The Besieged City), first published in Brazil in 1969, arrives in a rich new translation from Tobler and illuminating afterword by Sheila Heti. Lóri, a primary school teacher leading a solitary existence
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Clarice Lispector, trans. from the Portuguese by Benjamin Moser and Magdalena Edwards. New Directions, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2313-3
Never before translated into English, Lispector’s mysterious second novel tells the story of two siblings and the secrets that bind them together. As children, sensitive Daniel and precocious Virginia live at the parochial Quiet Farm in the...
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Clarice Lispector, trans. from the Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz, edited by Benjamin Moser. New Directions, $23.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2671-4
Lispector’s singular 1949 novel, newly translated by Lorenz, unfolds as a series of narrative snapshots taken over the life of a woman. In the quaint township of Sao Geraldo, sometime in the 1920s, young Lucrecia Neves enjoys a tumultuous festival...
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Clarice Lispector. New Directions, $17.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2960-9
Readers will delight in this short collection of luminous, laugh-out-loud stories from the late Brazilian cult writer Lispector (The Chandelier). Each centers on the natural world, though in wildly different ways. In the title story, a meticulous...
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Clarice Lispector, trans. from the Portuguese by Benjamin Moser. New Directions, $19.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2675-2
New Directions completes its series of 15 new Lispector translations with this existential epic of a desperate criminal. Martim flees the scene of his unspecified crime and ventures deep into the Brazilian jungle, coming at last upon a secluded...
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Clarice Lispector, trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson. New Directions, $29.95 trade paper (864p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2679-0
A decade of crônicas—short essays and anecdotes—published by Lispector (The Passion According to G.H.) primarily in the Jornal do Brasil from 1967 up to her death in 1977 come together in this rewarding work. Lispector asks in one entry “Is the...
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Clarice Lispector, Author, Elizabeth Lowe, Translator University of Minnesota Press $18.5 (79p) ISBN 978-0-8166-1782-1
This rarefied novel adopts the form of the interior monologue characteristic of Lispector's (1925-1977) oeuvre. A woman sits by the open window of her Brazilian beachfront studio, writing a long letter to someone no more specific than ``you.'' She...
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Clarice Lispector, Author, Giovanni Pontiero, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $12.95 (296p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1340-0
In 1967, Brazil's leading newspaper asked the avant-garde writer Lispector to write a weekly column on any topic she wished. For almost seven years, Lispector showed Brazilian readers just how vast and passionate her interests were. This beautifully
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Clarice Lispector, Author, Ronald W. Sousa, Translator University of Minnesota Press $24.95 (173p) ISBN 978-0-8166-1711-1
Aficionados of South American fiction as well as literary critics will welcome this posthumous translation of a nearly plotless novel by one of Brazil's foremost writers. Availing herself of a single character, Lispector transforms a banal...
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Clarice Lispector, trans. from the Portuguese by Benjamin Moser,
illus. by Carla Irusta. New York Review Books, $19.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-68137-897-8
In a rollicking translated fable about a fig tree that endeavors to outsmart
a flock of hens, Brazilian novelist Lispector casts as narrator dog Ulisses, who can “bark out a story that seems almost like make-believe and almost true.” The fig tree,...
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Clarice Lispector, trans. from the Portuguese by Benjamin Moser,
illus. by Kammal João. New York Review Books, $19.95 (48p) ISBN 978-1-68137-898-5
This surrealist picture book in translation describes the enigma posed by white rabbit Joãozinho, who escapes from a close-barred, heavy-
lidded hutch again and again without others discovering how. Intruiging, dry text by Brazilian novelist...
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