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Moser, Benjamin.
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Lispector, Clarice.
Authors, Brazilian -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women novelists -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Moser, Benjamin.
Lispector, Clarice.
Authors, Brazilian -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women novelists -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Why this world : a biography of Clarice Lispector / Benjamin Moser.
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Moser, Benjamin.
Oxford University Press, 2009.
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921
L7712m
Subjects
Lispector, Clarice.
Authors, Brazilian -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women novelists -- 20th century -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780195385564 (hc.) :
019538556X (hc.) :
Description:
viii, 479 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [439]-446) and index.
Contents:
Fun vonen is a yid? -- That irrational something -- The average pogrom -- The missing name -- Statue of Liberty -- Griene gringos -- The magical stories -- National melodrama -- Only for madmen -- Flying down to Rio -- God stirs the waters -- Straight from the zoo -- Hurricane Clarice -- Trampoline to victory -- Principessa di Napoli -- The society of shadows -- Volume in the brain -- The country of a thousand years of peace -- The public statue -- The third experience -- Her empty necklaces -- Marble mausoleum -- The intimate balance -- Redemption through sin -- The worst temptation -- Belonging to Brazil -- Better than Borges -- The cockroach -- And revolution! -- The egg really is white -- A coarse cactus -- Possible dialogues -- Cultural terror -- I humanized myself -- Monstre sacre -- The story of instants that flee -- Purged -- Batuba jantiram lecoli? -- Hen in black sauce -- Pornography -- The witch -- The thing itself -- Lispectorian silence -- Speaking from the tomb -- Our Lady of the Good Death.
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