On the very first page of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector’s “The Complete Stories,” she signals that hers was never an ordinary sensibility, but one capable of perceiving anxiety and menace in even ...
To understand the philosophical dimensions of her fiction you must read her 1961 novel The Apple in the Dark. Statue of Clarice Lispector at Leme Beach in Rio de Janeiro, 2016. (Photo by Luiz Souza / ...
Clarice Lispector (photo courtesy of Ben Moser and New Directions) “How do I know?” asks a character standing in for author Clarice Lispector in “Before the Rio–Niterói Bridge,” included in New ...