Why This World: A Biography of Clarice LispectorOxford University Press, 1 jul 2009 - 496 pagina's "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 years of research on three continents, drawing on previously unknown manuscripts and dozens of interviews, Benjamin Moser demonstrates how Lispector's development as a writer was directly connected to the story of her turbulent life. Born in the nightmarish landscape of post-World War I Ukraine, Clarice became, virtually from adolescence, a person whose beauty, genius, and eccentricity intrigued Brazil. Why This World tells how this precocious girl, through long exile abroad and difficult personal struggles, matured into a great writer. It also asserts, for the first time, the deep roots in the Jewish mystical tradition that make her the true heir to Kafka as well as the unlikely author of "perhaps the greatest spiritual autobiography of the twentieth century." From Chechelnik to Recife, from Naples and Berne to Washington and Rio de Janeiro, Why This World strips away the mythology surrounding this extraordinary figure and shows how Clarice Lispector transformed one woman's struggles into a universally resonant art. |
Inhoudsopgave
The Sphinx | 1 |
1 Fun Vonen Is a Yid? | 7 |
2 That Irrational Something | 12 |
3 The Average Pogrom | 25 |
4 The Missing Name | 33 |
5 Statue of Liberty | 38 |
6 Griene Gringos | 47 |
7 The Magical Stories | 59 |
27 Better Than Borges | 250 |
28 The Cockroach | 261 |
29 And Revolution | 270 |
30 The Egg Really Is White | 275 |
31 A Coarse Cactus | 281 |
32 Possible Dialogues | 285 |
33 Cultural Terror | 291 |
34 I Humanized Myself | 298 |
8 National Melodrama | 67 |
9 Only for Madmen | 74 |
10 Flying Down to Rio | 81 |
11 God Stirs the Waters | 96 |
12 Straight from the Zoo | 109 |
13 Hurricane Clarice | 119 |
14 Trampoline to Victory | 129 |
15 Principessa di Napoli | 137 |
16 The Society of Shadows | 148 |
17 Volume in the Brain | 157 |
18 The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace | 167 |
19 The Public Statue | 176 |
20 The Third Experience | 182 |
21 Her Empty Necklaces | 190 |
22 Marble Mausoleum | 200 |
23 The Intimate Balance | 210 |
24 Redemption through Sin | 219 |
25 The Worst Temptation | 230 |
26 Belonging to Brazil | 240 |
35 Monstre Sacré | 306 |
36 The Story of Instants That Flee | 313 |
37 Purged | 322 |
38 Batuba Jantiram Lecoli? | 327 |
39 Hen in Black Sauce | 336 |
40 Pornography | 344 |
41 The Witch | 350 |
42 The Thing Itself | 355 |
43 Lispectorian Silence | 360 |
44 Speaking from the Tomb | 367 |
45 Our Lady of the Good Death | 371 |
Epilogue | 385 |
Acknowledgments | 389 |
Notes | 395 |
Works Cited | 439 |
Illustration Credits | 447 |
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Why This World:A Biography of Clarice Lispector: A Biography of Clarice ... Benjamin Moser Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2009 |
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