Complete Stories: Clarice Lispector (Penguin Modern Classics) - Softcover

Lispector, Clarice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141197382 ISBN 13: 9780141197388

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2015

Synopsis

The publication of Clarice Lispector's Complete Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with themselves. Lispector's stories take us through their lives - and ours. From one of the greatest modern writers, these 85 stories, gathered from the nine collections published during her lifetime, follow Clarice Lispector throughout her life.

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About the Author

Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually Brazil. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart, in 1943, when she was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Graça Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.

From the Back Cover

Features stories ranging from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with themselves.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141197382
• ISBN 13: 9780141197388
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 672