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Why This World - A Biography of Clarice Lispector (Paperback)
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"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, and now in Why this
World, 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, and 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 Bern 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. Benjamin Moser is the New Books columnist of Harper's
Magazine. He was born in Houston in 1976 and currently lives in the
Netherlands. He is a contributor to the The New York Review of
Books, and he has written for Conde Nast Traveler and Newsweek, as
well as many other publications.
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