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- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Number of Pages: 464
- ISBN: 019538556X
- WAPI (Tower ID): 112535039
- Release Date: August 4, 2009
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector" by Benjamin Moser to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector"Browse more products related to "Benjamin Moser"Review"Moser's is a well-written and remarkable book, and almost everything I can now say about Lispector's life derives from it." "[Lispector's] fiction...combines jewel-like language, deadpan humor, philosophical profundity and an almost psychopathically lucid understanding of the human condition....[Moser's] energetically researched, finely argued biography will surely win [her] the English-language readership she deserves." "This is rich biographical material that gets only richer as Mr. Moser...begins to unpeel the layers of her complicated life. WHY THIS WORLD sucks you--for long stretches, anyway--into its subject's strange vortex....Mr. Moser, for the most part, is a lucid and very learned tour guide, and his book is a fascinating and welcome introduction to a writer whose best work should be better known in this country." "Unknown in this country, Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) was respected, revered, and almost worshipped in her own country, Brazil....Benjamin Moser, who has thoroughly researched and elegantly presented the life of this gifted and glamorous woman, seems to have been caught up in her 'glacial intensity.' This is a very cool and detached performance." "This well-researched biography by Moser...should send readers in search of this indescribable author, whose work in many ways is closer to cabalistic writing than to more contemporary modernists like Woolf, Kafka or Joyce." "Moser's richly contextualized, uniquely insightful, and haunting biography of mystic and writer Lispector resurrects a 'penetrating genius.' " (starred review) Annotation"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 art was directly connected to her turbulent life. Born amidst the horrors of post-World War I Ukraine, Clarice's beauty, genius, and eccentricity intrigued Brazil virtually from her adolescence. Why This World tells how this precocious girl, through long exile abroad and difficult personal struggles, matured into a great writer, and asserts, for the first time, the deep roots in the Jewish mystical tradition that make her both the heir to Kafka and the unlikely author of "perhaps the greatest spiritual autobiography of the twentieth century." From Ukraine to Recife, from Naples and Berne to Washington and Rio de Janeiro, Why This World shows how Clarice Lispector transformed one woman's struggles into a universally resonant art. Born into the pogroms and poverty of post-World War I Ukraine, Clarice Lispector and her family moved to Brazil when she was an infant, where she would eventually become famous for her beauty and her innovative, feverish, modernist fiction. Benjamin Moser delves deeply into the troubled life (her father died young, her son was schizophrenic, she suffered from chronic pain) of the talented, alluring, and mystical author, one of the most famous writers of Latin America (though still not widely read in The United States). If You Enjoy "Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector (Hardcover)" by Benjamin Moser (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Non-Classifiable BestsellersNon-Classifiable Bestselling Books
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