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Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only "to love and to be loved, " but also "to be worthy of life itself." Published in 196...

Best-of-Lispector: über 20 ausgewählte Kurzgeschichten der Kultautorin«Besser als Jorge Luis Borges» - Elizabeth Bishop. «Schneidend wie ein Diamant» - Rachel Kushner. «Die brasilianische Virginia Woolf» - Karl Lagerfeld. Selten ist ein Werk des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts so überschwänglich und einhellig gerühmt worden wie das von Clarice Lispector. Im Mittelpunkt dieser faszinierenden Sammlung von über 20 Short Stories stehen weibliche Erfahrun...

Clarice Lispector wollte schreiben, was hinter den Worten liegt." Der StandardClarice Lispector gilt neben Virginia Woolf als bedeutendste Schriftstellerin der Moderne. Zu ihrem 100. Geburtstag erscheint der zweite und letzte Band ihrer gesammelten Erzählungen in der gefeierten Neuübersetzung von Luis Ruby. Hannelore Hoger, eine große Kennerin und Verehrerin Lispectors, liest ihre persönlichen Lieblingserzählungen aus beiden Bänden. Mit ihrer ...

A lonely woman in Rio de Janeiro makes a connection that will change her life. Ulisses, a mysterious man, has penetrated her soul and turned her inside out. This is a devastating novel of the interior, of a woman yearning to love, of the ultimate unknowability of the other in a relationship, of the cosmic changes that enrich us and destroy us at the dawn of love.

What to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH with a book that looks suspiciously like a romance novel?      In The Apprenticeship, or The Book of Pleasures, Clarice Lispector tries to discover how to bridge the gap between people, or how to even begin to try.      A woman struggles to emerge from solitude and sadness into love, including sexual love: her guide on this journey is Ulisses, wh...

Endlich wiederentdeckt: die Virginia Woolf SüdamerikasPlatz 1 der SWR Bestenliste, eine beeindruckende Anzahl hymnischer Rezensionen und eine Nominierung der Übersetzung für den Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse 2020: der erste Band von Clarice Lispectors Erzählungen (»Tagtraum und Trunkenheit einer jungen Frau«) begeisterte die Presse ebenso wie Leserinnen und Leser. Zum 100. Geburtstag der Autorin liegt nun der zweite und letzte Band vor. Auch e...

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola, and her rat of a boyfriend, she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly, and unloved...

That woman who killed the fish unfortunately is me, " begins the title story, but "if it were my fault, I'd own up to you, since I don't lie to boys and girls. I only lie sometimes to a certain type of grownup because there's no other way." Enumerating all the animals she's loved-cats, dogs, lizards, chickens, monkeys-Clarice finally asks: "Do you forgive me?"        "The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit" is a detective story which explains that...

»Endlich wird eine der geheimnisvollsten Autorinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts in all ihren schillernden Facetten wiederentdeckt.« Orhan PamukIdalina sucht einen Weg zwischen Vernunft und Leidenschaft, Luísa ringt um innere Stärke und Tuda um ein Leben ohne Therapeuten. In Kurzprosa von beispielloser Originalität lotet Clarice Lispector die Paradoxien des Daseins und die Grenzen des Sagbaren aus: Wahnsinn wird zu Weisheit, Angst zu Mut, wenn sie das...

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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 the First World War 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 Gra¿Aranha Prize for the best firs...

The Chandelier, written when Lispector was only twenty-three, reveals a very different author from the college student whose debut novel, Near to the Wild Heart, announced the landfall of "Hurricane Clarice." Virginia and her cruel, beautiful brother, Daniel, grow up in a decaying country mansion. They leave for the city, but the change of locale leaves Virginia's internal life unperturbed. In intensely poetic language, Lispector conducts a st...

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. Lucrécia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors-soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus-are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, which is of a piece with Sao Geraldo, the rough-and-ready township she inhabits. Civilization is on its way to this place, where wild horses still roam....

Clarice Lispector's masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time'She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold ... She would get a clear and tender material from which she could shape a world'Like the clay from which she sculpts figurines as a girl, Virginia is constantly shifting and changing. From her dreamlike childhood on Quiet Farm with her adored brother Daniel, through an adulthood wher...

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Macabéa schlägt sich in der rauen Hafengegend von Rio de Janeiro mit Schreibarbeiten durch. Niemand, nicht einmal ihr Freund, hat das unansehnliche, unterernährte Mädchen aus dem armen Norden gern. Aber Macabéa besitzt eine große innere Freiheit: Sie scheint einfach nicht zu wissen, wie unglücklich sie sein müsste.

Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilianlegend. 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 herdeathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexualand artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don't know what to do with themselves...

Three intoxicating tales of three women - their secret desires, fears and madness - from a giant of Brazilian literature.

Fresh from the enormous success of her debut novel Near to the Wild Heart, Hurricane Clarice let loose something stormier with The Chandelier. In a body of work renowned for its potent idiosyncratic genius,  The Chandelier in many ways has pride of place. "It stands out, " her biographer Benjamin Moser noted, "in a strange and difficult body of work, as perhaps her strangest and most difficult book." Of glacial intensity, consisting almost ent...

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