Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector - Rilegato

Moser, Benjamin

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ISBN 10: 019538556X ISBN 13: 9780195385564

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, 2009

Riassunto

"That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf," Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers. Now, after years of research on three continents, drawing on previously unknown manuscripts and dozens of interviews, Benjamin Moser demonstrates how Lispector's development as a writer was directly connected to the story of her turbulent life. Born in the nightmarish landscape of post-World War I Ukraine, Clarice became, virtually from adolescence, a person whose beauty, genius, and eccentricity intrigued Brazil. Why This World tells how this precocious girl, through long exile abroad and difficult personal struggles, matured into a great writer. It also asserts, for the first time, the deep roots in the Jewish mystical tradition that make her the true heir to Kafka as well as the unlikely author of "perhaps the greatest spiritual autobiography of the twentieth century." From Chechelnik to Recife, from Naples and Berne to Washington and Rio de Janeiro, Why This World strips away the mythology surrounding this extraordinary figure and shows how Clarice Lispector transformed one woman's struggles into a universally resonant art.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Benjamin Moser is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine and a contributor to the New York Review of Books and Cond? Nast Traveler. His translation of The Hour of the Star inaugurated New Directions' Clarice Lispector series, of which he is the Editor. He lives in the Netherlands.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 019538556X
• ISBN 13: 9780195385564
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 479
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile