Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

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A new and passionate biography of Brazil's most important, and legendary writer of the twentieth century

"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. 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. From Chechelnik to Recife, 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 her own struggles into a universally resonant art.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781846147814
Published: January 2014

Number of pages: 512
Width: 130 mm
Height: 197 mm
Depth: 22 mm

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd