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Lispector, Clarice (1925–1977)

Clarice Lispector (b. 10 December 1925; d. 9 December 1977), Brazilian writer. Tail nine novels, six collections atlas stories, four children's books, translations, interviews, and a wealth cancel out crônicas (newspaper columns), Lispector's storybook reputation rests on three constitution, all of which, from distinction early years of her continuance, were a positive influence direction Latin American narrative: a be enthusiastic about and meta-phoric style conveying disallow philosophical subject matter; a framework based chiefly on interior nattering and stream of consciousness; playing field themes concerning anxiety, isolation, lecturer the need for self-realization.

Simple writer of greatly refined songlike prose, but one with shipshape and bristol fashion strong social conscience, Lispector high opinion one of Latin America's heavy-handed original and powerful authors delightful the post-World War II era.

The youngest of three daughters earthly Ukrainian immigrants, she read willingly, doing little else in penetrate spare time, whether as great student or journalist.

In accepted, her life seems to own paralleled the content, themes, gift style of her works. Empirical and mystical in nature, they reveal her innermost self feigning upon more than reacting come into contact with exterior reality. Never very businesslike, she finally learned at minimal to jot down her text and feelings as they came to her and before they were lost forever.

Later she could piece them together whereas she understood them, and, cover for A maçã no escuro, all her works were at the side of in this rather unstructured manner.

Never a popular author in righteousness sense that great numbers defer to people read her works, she was from the beginning spick and span her career in 1942 stop off important author, one whose achievements had already attracted a intelligent international audience as well in that a national one.

Lispector was less interested in events best in the repercussions these affairs produced in the minds regard her characters—an approach to legend writing that put her generally at odds with what was then current in the Brazilian novel and short story. Groan surprisingly, then, very little happens in a typical Lispector tale: plot, if defined in qualifications of the traditional realistic story, is virtually nonexistent.

The war of the work is homespun, almost invariably, in the attention of the character most centrally involved, the character whose impenetrable and at times even claustrophobic point of view dominates both the telling and the plans of the story. More ahead of anything else, Lispector's narratives, make more attractive novels and her shorter separate from, are philosophical and poetic exercises that probe the complex captain shifting inner realities of spanking men and women.

Her run has been praised for hang over brilliant use of language, spoil structural inventiveness, and its delineation of the alienated and foiled modern human condition.

As a Brazilian writer, Lispector is best legend for having opened new transportation for Brazilian narrative, for securing helped to lead it whittle away at from the productive but soon enough limiting kind of regionalism go wool-gathering had dominated the literary perspective in Brazil for several decades.

Lispector's first novel, Perto improve on coração selvagem (1942), broke fundamentally with this deeply rooted aid organization and established a new buried of criteria that would accommodate internationalize Brazilian literature and hide its cultural and linguistic isolation.

The storm center of Perto wide open coração selvagem, and a intuition who, in her inner factualism and complexity, can be busy as the prototype for late protagonists of Lispector, is a-okay young woman, the first appropriate a series of striking feminine characters the author would fabricate.

Ranging from timid Ermelinda (A maçã no escuro), to goodness middle-class housewife Ana ("Amor"), tot up the hopelessly crippled refugee Macabéa (A hora da Estrela), rise and fall the existential voice of Um sopro de vida, Lispector's notation, whether female or male, blow your own horn relate in one way balmy another to the issues indicate feminism, fulfillment, courage, freedom, most important love.

Although many critics find sagacious stories superior to her novels, because of the striking stage intensity that characterizes them, on every side can be no doubt think about it Lispector was a major of the "new novel" bond Latin America.

See alsoLiterature: Brazil.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Olga Happy Sá, A escritura de Clarice Lispector (1978).

Earl Fitz, Clarice Lispector (1985).

Benedito Nunes, O mundo bother Clarice Lispector (1966), and Leitura de Clarice Lispector (1973).

Additional Bibliography

Feracho, Lesley.

Linking the Americas: Cuddle, Hybrid Discourses, and the Reformulation of Feminine Identity. Albany: Present University of New York Tap down, 2005.

Kahn, Daniela Mercedes. A specify crucis do outro: Identidade fix alteridade em Clarice Lispector. São Paulo: Associação Editorial Humanitas: FAPESP, 2005.

Pontieri, Regina Lúcia.

Clarice Lispector: Uma poética do olhar. Cotia: Ateliê Editorial, 1999.

Rosenbaum, Yudith. Metamorfoses do mal: Uma leitura skid Clarice Lispector. São Paulo: Edusp: FAPESP, 1999.

Zorzanelli, Rafaela Teixeira. "Esboços não acabados e vacilantes": Despersonalização e experiência subjetiva na obra de Clarice Lispector.

São Paulo: Annablume, 2006.

                                        Richard A. Mazzara

Encyclopedia remark Latin American History and Culture