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Complete Stories

Clarice Lispector

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Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don't know what to do with themselves-- and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives--and hers--and ours.

Book Details

  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publish Date: Jun 26th, 2018
  • Pages: 704
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.40in - 1.60in - 1.66lb
  • EAN: 9780811227933
  • Categories: Short Stories (single author)Hispanic & Latino - GeneralWorld Literature - Brazil

About the Author

Lispector, Clarice: - Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called "astounding" (Rachel Kushner), "a penetrating genius" (Donna Seaman, Booklist), and "one of the twentieth century's most mysterious writers" (Orhan Pamuk).
Moser, Benjamin: - General editor of the new translations of Clarice Lispector's complete works at New Directions, BENJAMIN MOSER is the author of Why This World: The Biography of Clarice Lispector, and Sontag: Her Life and Work, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His new book, The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters, will be published in October.
Dodson, Katrina: - Katrina Dodson's translation of The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector was awarded the PEN Translation Prize, the American Translators Association Lewis Galantière Award, and a Northern California Book Award. She translated Mário de Andrade's 1928 Brazilian modernist classic, Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The Believer, McSweeney's, Triple Canopy and elsewhere. Dodson holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and is an affiliated scholar of the Brazil LAB at Princeton University. A San Francisco native, she now lives in Brooklyn and teaches translation at Columbia University.

Critics’ reviews

Praise for this book

Utterly original and brilliant, haunting and disturbing.--Colm Tóibín
I felt physically jolted by genius.--Katherine Boo "Financial Times"
Reading Lispector is like being handed a world on fire.--Juan Vidal "NPR"
Translated beautifully and with a vigorous pulse by Katrina Dodson, The Complete Stories is bound to become a kind of bedside Bible or I Ching for readers of Lispector, both old and new.--Valeria Luiselli "Publishers Weekly (starred)"
A dangerous book to read quickly or casually because it's so consistently delirious. Her Complete Stories is a remarkable book, proof that she is one of the true originals of Latin American literature.--Terrence Rafferty "The New York Times Book Review"