Clarice Lispector
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Date: 2008
Clarice Lispector , 1925-77, Brazilian author, b. Ukraine. An editor, translator, newspaper columnist, and law student as well as fiction writer, Lispector traveled widely and was influenced by Virginia Woolf and Katharine Mansfield . Many of her nine novels, e.g., The Apple in the Dark (1961, tr. 1967) and The Hour of the Star (1977, tr. 1986), and eight short-story collections, e.g., Family Ties (1960, tr. 1972) and Soulstorm (1989), focus on human isolation and moral uncertainty.
Bibliography: See her Selected Crónicas (tr. 1996); studies by E. E. Fitz (1985) and H. Cixous (1990).
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