Clarice Lispector Collection(epub)

You can read two of her short stories from this sitetwo-stories-by-clarice-lispector-translated-by-elizabeth-bishop

Clarice Lispector (December 10, 1920 – December 9, 1977) was a Brazilian writer who has been described as the most important Jewish writer since Franz Kafka.[1] 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 (less than 1 year old), amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War.

She grew up in Recife, 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.[citation needed]

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 what is arguably 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 work are common in Brazilian literature and music. Several of her works have been turned into films and she has been the subject of several studies and biographies, such as Clarice Lispector: esboço para um possível retrato, by Olga Borelli (1981), Clarice Lispector: a paixão segundo C.L., by Berta Walman (1983), L’heure de Clarice Lispector, by Hélène Cixous (1989), Clarice: uma vida que se conta, by Nádia Gotlib (1995), Eu sou uma pergunta: uma biografia de Clarice Lispector, by Teresa Montero (1999), and Why this world: a biography of Clarice Lispector, by Benjamin Moser (2009).