Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector - Couverture souple

Moser, Benjamin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0199895821 ISBN 13 : 9780199895823

Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Moser Benjamin

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Born in 1920, in the nightmarish landscape of post-World War I Ukraine, her family driven to a distant country by the fearsome pogroms that killed her mother and ruined her father, Clarice Lispector triumphed over her origins to become, virtually from adolescence, a person whose beauty, genius, and eccentricity intrigued all of Brazil's writers and artists. Why This World tells how this precocious girl, through long exile abroad and difficult personal struggles, matured into a great writer and demonstrates, for the first time, the deep roots in the Jewish mystical tradition that make her the true heir to Kafka. Against a sweeping historical panorama, from the Ukraine to Brazil, from Naples and Berne and Washington to Rio de Janeiro, Why This World is an essential introduction to the work of one of the 20th century's most important writers, indispensable for students of Jewish, Latin American, and women's literature.

Revue de presse :

Clarice Lispector is one of the hidden geniuses of twentieth century literature, in the same league as Flann O'Brien, Borges and Pessoa. Now, finally, the plot has been thickened and the problem solved by Benjamin Moser's biography which is rich in detail and original research and filled with sympathy for what must remain hidden and what must be understood. He has written a great book about a Jewish heroine whose family lived through some of the worst episodes of the last century in Europe; he has given also a fascinating account of modern Brazil where Lispector's work is treasured and her genius recognized. --Colm Toibin

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, USA
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0199895821
• ISBN 13: 9780199895823
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 479