Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel "Near to the Wild Heart" was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'. It tells the story of Joana, from her wild, creative childhood, as the 'little egg' who writes poems for her father, through h[...]

Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S.M., who tries to direct Macabea's fate but co[...]

Driven by an unfulfilled desire for the unattainable, ultimately indefinable Other, the protagonists of the novels and stories of acclaimed Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector exemplify and humanize many of the issues central to poststructuralist thought, from the nature of language, truth, and meani[...]

Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabea, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn M[...]

The recent publication by New Directions of five Lispector novels revealed to legions of new readers her darkness and dazzle. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum [...]

Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called Hurricane Clarice: a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart o[...]

O Segredo de Clarice Lispector

Den brasilianske verdensforfatter Clarice Lispectors gennembrudsbog fra 1960. 13 overraskende, morsomme og sublime historier.

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Ett kvinnligt jag skriver till ett manligt du och skildrar sin oro och sina sökanden i en oupphörligt flödande monolog som rör sig mellan yrande, bekännelse och förförelse: När jag ska skriva till dig tar jag först på mig parfym över hela mig. Språket tätnar till en djungel av ord och g[...]

Macabéa lever ett innehållslöst liv i Rio de Janeiro. Hon har precis blivit uppsagd från sitt arbete som maskinskriverska, men får vara kvar då chefen tycker synd om henne. Efter ett blekt och tafatt förhållande med "metallurgen" Olímpico de Jesus, som överger Macabéa för hennes arbetska[...]

Nära det vilda hjärtat (1944) är en skeptisk betraktelse över äktenskapet, skriven av en romandebuterande, tjugotreårig Clarice Lispector. Hon har just avslutat sina juridikstudier och arbetar nu som journalist. Samma år gifter hon sig med en blivande diplomat. Romanen hyllades som något hel[...]