A Woman Who Looked Like Dietrich And Wrote Like Woolf

From: Forward | Date: March 11, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Tarnopolsky, Noga
Forward
03-11-2005
The much revered Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector was born a Jew and
buried a Jew, but in between, it seems, she struggled simply to be Clarice,
with an accent on the usually silent final syllable, see. If anything, the
gorgeous, exotic-looking Lispector wanted only to be seen as a native
Brazilian, an identity that her Asiatic eyes, Ukrainian-Jewish birth and
small speech defect constantly threatened to scuttle.

She arrived in Brazil in 1921 as a 2-month-old baby, and for her whole life
she spoke only Portuguese. "My first language was Portuguese. Do I speak
...

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