This collection, gathering all her stories together for the first time in English, shows us abandonments and dependencies, animals too deeply loved and then eaten, the smallest woman in the world, moments of madness and passions that have the ferocity of a fork plunged into a good friend's neck.
Clarice Lispector (Author)
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer.
Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was
born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I
and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and
eventually Brazil. She published her first novel, Near to the
Wildheart, in 1943, when she was just twenty-three, and the next
year was awarded the Gra a Aranha Prize for the best first novel.
She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel,
The Hour of the Star.
One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century
*Colm Tóibín*
Lispector reads with lively intelligence and is terrifically funny.
Language, for her, was the self's light
*Lorrie Moore*
An emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same
pantheon as Kafka and Joyce
*Edmund White*
Lispector's Complete Stories is a remarkable book, proof that she
was - in the company of Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo and her
19th-century countryman Machado de Assis - one of the true
originals of Latin American literature
*New York Times*
Plenty of writers inspire fierce devotion in their readers... but
no one converts the uninitiated into devout believers as suddenly
and as vertiginously as Clarice Lispector, the Latin American
visionary, Ukrainian-Jewish mystic, and middle-class housewife and
mother so revered by her Brazilian fans that she's known by a
single name: "Clarice"... You will not be disappointed if you read
The Complete Stories. It might even become your bible
*New Republic*
Translated beautifully and with a vigorous pulse by Katrina Dodson,
The Complete Stories is bound to become a kind of bedside Bible or
I Ching for readers of Lispector, both old and new. Wherever one
opens the book, there is a slice of life to confront. In one of her
later stories Lispector recalls the writer Sergio Porto, her
friend, who was once asked by a stewardess on a plane if he wanted
coffee. To which he replied: "I'll take everything I have a right
to." We can approach this volume in a similar spirit: take
everything
*Publishers Weekly*
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