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    Agua Viva

    Clarice Lispector

    In Água Viva Clarice Lispector aims to ‘capture the present’. This is a masterly work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction.

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    Complete Stories

    Clarice Lispector, Katrina Dodson (trans.)

    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…

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    Near to the Wild Heart

    Clarice Lispector

    This new translation of Clarice Lispector’s sensational first book tells the story of a middle class woman’s life from childhood through an unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence.

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    Too Much of Life

    Clarice Lispector

    This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the small moments that make up a life

    'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy…

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    Hour of the Star

    Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser (trans.)

    Slyly subverting ideas of poverty, identity, love and the art of writing itself, Clarice Lispector’s audacious last novel is a haunting portrayal of innocence in a bad world.

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    Near to the Wild Heart

    Clarice Lispector

    Clarice Lispector’s sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was twenty-three and earned her the name ‘Hurricane Clarice’. She became renowned as Brazil’s greatest…

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    A Breath of Life

    Clarice Lispector

    A Breath of Life is Clarice Lispector’s final novel, ‘written in agony’, which she did not live to see published. Sensual and mysterious, it is a mystical dialogue between a…

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    An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

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    A love story by the great Clarice Lispector that asks: Just how might two people be joined?

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    Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

    Benjamin Moser

    From Chechelnik to Recife, from 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…

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    The Passion According to G.H

    Clarice Lispector, Idra Novey (trans.)

    G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white ‘as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed’. There…

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    The Apple in the Dark

    Clarice Lispector

    'The best one', as Clarice herself described it - her great mystical masterpiece

    In the mistaken belief that he has killed his wife, Martim flees the city and arrives, in…

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    Covert Joy

    Clarice Lispector

    From the massive treasure house of her hugely successful Complete Stories, gathered here are the most glittering gems of Clarice Lispector's short fiction

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    Almost True

    Clarice Lispector, Carla Irusta

    Ulisses the talking dog relays the story of a greedy fig tree who teams up with a wicked witch to exploit Edissea and her fellow hens, leading the hens to…

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    The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit

    Clarice Lispector, Kammal Joao

    In search of more food, Joaeaozinho the rabbit learns to how escape from his ironclad hutch, daring the humans to solve the mystery of his methods.

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    The Besieged City

    Clarice Lispector

    Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel-the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals-is in English at last

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    The Woman Who Killed the Fish

    Clarice Lispector

    Four beguiling tales for children of all ages. A surprising new facet of Clarice Lispector’s genius

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    Clarice Lispector

    Earl E. Fitz

    Explains why the Brazilian master was so transformative of modern Brazilian literature and why she has become such a celebrity in the world literature arena. By offering close readings of…

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    Clarice Lispector

    Earl E. Fitz

    Explains why the Brazilian master was so transformative of modern Brazilian literature and why she has become such a celebrity in the world literature arena. By offering close readings of…

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    Philosophy with Clarice Lispector

    This book examines Clarice Lispector's body of work, foregrounding its theoretical insights and exploring its philosophical questions, which are placed in conversation with a range of theoretical frameworks and approaches…

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    Epiphany in Clarice Lispector

    Thiago Soares, Rafael Souza

    The reader has before him an incomplete book about the epiphany in Clarice Lispector, so what is done here are provocations. The density of the author's literary work could not…

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    Family Ties

    Clarice Lispector

    Here are collected thirteen of the Brazilian writer’s most brilliantly conceived stories, where mysterious and unexpected moments of crisis propel characters to self-discovery or keenly felt intuitions about the human…

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    Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady

    Clarice Lispector

    Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry

    ‘The morning became a long, drawn-out…

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    Clarice Lispector

    Leonie Meyer-Krentler

    Clarice Lispector gehoert zu den grossen Sprachschoepferinnen der Weltliteratur. Fur ihre Individualitat und ihre poetischen Selbsterkundungen wird sie bis heute nicht nur in Brasilien verehrt. Nach der Flucht aus der…

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    Too Much of Life: The Complete Cronicas

    Clarice Lispector

    In the magnificent feast of Clarice Lispector’s books, her cronicas-short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces-are the delicious canapes

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    The Chandelier

    Clarice Lispector

    Available in English for the first time, The Chandelieris one of Lispector’s most radical books and a key part of what made her a Brazilian legend.

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    A Breath of Life

    Clarice Lispector

    A mystical dialogue between a male author and his creation, this posthumous work has never before been translated, and is a book of particular beauty and strangeness.

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    Clarice Lispector - Weltliteratur?

    Leonie Meyer-Krentler

    It has only been in the 21st century that the literary oeuvre of the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) has received international recognition, after being repeatedly forgotten in the past…

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    Reading With Clarice Lispector

    Helene Cixous

    The texts that comprise this volume were selected from Cixous’ seminars on the work of Clarice Lispector. They reflect Cixous’ meditations on the art of reading, writing and related themes…

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    The Imitation of the Rose

    Clarice Lispector

    The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the luminous writing of Clarice Lispector.

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    The Besieged City

    Clarice Lispector

    Now in paperback, The Besieged City-Clarice Lispector's electrifying third novel-tells of a shallow girl becoming a desirable but highly materialistic woman in a rough-and-ready town

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    Clarice Lispector: A Bio-Bibliography

    Diane Marting

    Clarice Lispector was one of the most important Brazilian writers in Portuguese of the 20th century, and her work continues to receive critical attention. The second part of the volume…

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    O Segredo de Clarice Lispector

    Marcus Deminco

    A verdade sobre Clarice Lispector que ninguem jamais contou.Mas afinal, por que a autora era conhecida como A Grande Bruxa da Literatura Brasileira? Que especie de vinculo Clarice teria estabelecido…

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    Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

    Benjamin Moser (Harper's Magazine)

    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. Now, after…

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    A literatura do fora em Clarice Lispector

    de Souza Diana

    Sao previsiveis os estudos direcionados a obra Perto do coracao selvagem, de Clarice Lispector, firmados sob uma perspectiva intimista e metafisica que procura na obra perceber uma escrita de tendencias…

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    Writing by Ear: Clarice Lispector and the Aural Novel

    Marilia Librandi

    Writing by Ear examines the explicit articulation of listening-in-writing found in the work of Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector. The terms writing by ear, the aural novel, and echopoetics rethink fiction…

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    A Study Guide for Clarice Lispector’s Family Ties

    Cengage Learning Gale

    A Study Guide for Clarice Lispector’s Family Ties, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…

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    Carta, Licao e Encenacao em Clarice Lispector

    Aragao Karine

    Como um farol, a correspondencia entre Clarice Lispector e Fernando Sabino ilumina a ficcao clariceana, ampliando o espaco de discussao e revelando uma escrita que, no afa de escrever, questiona-se…

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    Heros de l'Olympe 3/La marque d'Athena

    Rick Riordan,Rick Riordan,Clarice Lispector

    Annabeth eut l'impression que quelqu'un venait de poser une main glaciale sur sa nuque. De nouveau, ce rire etouffe, comme si la presence l'avait suivie depuis qu'elle avait quitte le…

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    The Foreign Legion

    Clarice Lispector

    A radiant beauty of a writer. -The Los Angeles Times

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    Selected Cronicas

    Clarice Lispector

    Clarice Lispector was a born writer….she writes with sensuous verve, bringing her earliest passions into adult life intact, along with a child’s undiminished capacity for wonder. The New York Times…

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    The Apple in the Dark

    Clarice Lispector

    "The best one," as Clarice Lispector called The Apple in the Dark, her famously intense 1961 novel

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    Passionate Fictions: Gender, Narrative, and Violence in Clarice Lispector

    Maria Piexoto

    For Clarice Lispector, narrative demands a victim, and Marta Peixoto details the dynamics of victimization that her writing describes. By the end of this study, we are left with a…

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    Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector: The Differance of Desire

    Earl E. Fitz

    This book argues that poststructuralism offers important and revealing insights into all aspects of Lispector’s writing,

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    Examining Whiteness: Reading Clarice Lispector through Bessie Head and Toni Morrison

    Lucia Villares

    By reading Clarice Lispector’s work of whiteness through concepts developed by Bessie Head and Toni Morrison, the author deals with the ways in which Lispector’s texts raise questions concerning the…

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    Die literarischen Funktionen der Tiermetamorphosen bei Clarice Lispector und Brigitte Kronauer

    Sarah De Carvalho Hartmann

    Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, die literarischen Funktionen der Tiermetamorphose in den Werken von Clarice Lispector und Brigitte Kronauer genauer zu untersuchen. Dazu wird der kulturelle und historische Kontext…

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