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

Moser, Benjamin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1906598428 ISBN 13 : 9781906598426

Editeur : Haus Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

BENJAMIN MOSER is the New Books columnist of Harper's Magazine. He was born in Houston in 1976 and currently lives in the Netherlands. He is a contributor to the The New York Review of Books, and he has written for Conde Nast Traveler and Newsweek, as well as many other publications.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Haus Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1906598428
• ISBN 13: 9781906598426
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 544
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible