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Five Things You Should Know About Clarice Lispector

1.Fleeing a small war torn town in the Ukraine after WWI, Lispector’s family moved to Brazil, changed their name, lost her mother before she was ten and traveled extensively with her father and siblings.

2. While attending law school in Rio, she began publishing short stories and rose to fame for her first novel, Near the Wild Heart at the young age of 23.

3. Lonely and notoriously known for being a difficult to work with, Clarice became an revolutionary writer when in it came to perspective and emotional depth. She was a master at navigating the internal condition of her characters whether they were children, men and women. “The Disasters of Sofia” is an excellent example of the complex inner lives of children.

4. The reason you may have never come across her work in a bookstore is likely because of her disregard for conventional plotting. Her works range widely in shape and scope. But luckily you can get this great collection of her greatest works.

5. Lispector is described as the most important Jewish writer in the world since Kafka.

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