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Clarice Lispector
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Ukrainian-Brazilian writer, poet, and journalist (1920–1977)
Clarice Lispector was a Ukrainian-Brazilian writer, poet, and journalist whose work in the 20th century explored complex psychological and philosophical themes through innovative literary techniques. Her contributions to literature have made her an influential figure in modernist writing, though she remains less widely known in English-speaking countries than in Latin America and Europe.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 24
Top works
- Agua viva
- Uma aprendizagem, ou, O livro dos prazeres
- A cidade sitiada
- Ḳishre mishpaḥah ; Sheʻat kokhav
- Clarice Lispector, diccionario íntimo
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Clarice is not a singer or composer. She is a writer. Probably all her tracks are her audiobooks. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Clarice+Lispector">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Prevalence of Hypertension in the US Adult Population
· 1995 · cited 2,217x
- Incidence of Early Loss of Pregnancy
· 1988 · cited 1,863x
- Targeting DNA Double-Strand Breaks with TAL Effector Nucleases
· 2010 · cited 1,766x
- Efficient design and assembly of custom TALEN and other TAL effector-based constructs for DNA targeting
· 2011 · cited 1,730x
- Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci
· 2017 · cited 1,341x
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Quotes
- “Traduzo, sim, mas fico cheia de mêdo de ler traduções que fazem de livros meus. Além de ter basntante enjôo de reler coisas minhas, fico também com mêdo do que o tradutor possa ter feito com um texto meu...”
- “Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea.”
- “There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.”
- “Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I do not know why, but I do know that the universe never began.Let no one be mistaken. I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing...”
- “Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human? (p7 Benjamin Moser translation)”
- “I only use reason as an anesthetic. But for life I’m a perennial promise of understanding my submerged world. Now that there are computers for almost every type of search for intellectual solutions—I therefore turn back to my rich interior nothing. And I scream: I feel, I suffer, I am happy, I am moved. Only my enigma interests me. More than anything, I search for myself in my great void. (p36)”
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.claricelispector.com.br
- Image
- (1920-1977) Clarice Lispector 6zxkp please credit(palette.fm) (cropped).png
- Number of children
- 2
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- Commons category
- Clarice Lispector
- date of birth
- 1925-00-00
- birth name
- Хая Пинхасiвна Лиспектор
- pseudonym
- Terelu
- date of death
- 1977-12-09
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- Aire
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Article
Clarice Lispector ([klaˈɾisi lisˈpɛktoʁ]; born Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector; December 10, 1920 – December 9, 1977) was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her distinctive and innovative works delve into diverse narrative forms, weaving themes of intimacy and introspection, earning her subsequent international acclaim. She is known for works such as Near to the Wild Heart (1943) and The Hour of the Star (1977).
Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Western Ukraine, as an infant she moved to Brazil with her family, amidst the pogroms committed during the Russian Civil War. Lispector grew up in Recife, the capital of the northeastern state of Pernambuco, where her mother died when Clarice was nine. The family moved to Rio de Janeiro when she was in her teens. While in law school in Rio, she began publishing her first journalistic work and short stories, catapulting to fame at the age of 23 with the publication of her first novel, Near to the Wild Heart (Perto do Coração Selvagem), written as an interior monologue in a style and language that was considered revolutionary in Brazil.