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Overlooked No More: Clarice Lispector, Novelist Who Captivated Brazil
Critics lauded her stream-of-consciousness style and described her as glamorous and mysterious. But she didn’t always welcome the attention she received.
Clarice Lispector published nine novels, 85 short stories, five books for children and countless letters and newspaper columns, cementing her reputation as a writer of great, if cryptic, power.Credit.Rocco
By Lucas Iberico Lozada
Published Dec. 18, 2020Updated Dec. 21, 2020
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.
In the 1940s, Clarice Lispector, barely out of college, rocked the Brazilian literary establishment with the publication of her debut novel, “Perto do Coração Selvagem” (“Near to the Wild Heart”). Critics lauded the jagged unpredictability of the book, which charted the stream-of-consciousness reflections of a young female protagonis
Translator’s Note:
Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of iconic Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, born on December 10, 1920, in the Ukranian village of Chechelnik, where her family had stopped while fleeing the nightmarish violence of the pogroms in the wake of the Russian Revolution. After a long journey through Europe, the refugees arrived in northeastern Brazil in 1922, where most of them adopted new Brazilian names; the youngest daughter, Chaya, meaning “life” in Hebrew, became Clarice.
I wanted to share the following essay as a tribute to Clarice on her birthday, and an offering to her growing number of readers outside Brazil. My translation is a shortened version of a piece originally published in 1999 by Brazilian journalist and writer José Castello, in his essay collection Inventário das sombras