Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser

Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

Benjamin Moser

nonfiction biography dark slow-paced

479 pages | first published 2009

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"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...
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