Why this world
Subtitle: a biography of Clarice Lispector
By: Benjamin Moser.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9780195385564
Subjects: Lispector, Clarice; Authors, Brazilian -- 20th century -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fun vonen is a yid?; title: That irrational something; title: The average pogrom; title: The missing name; title: Statue of Liberty; title: Griene gringos; title: The magical stories; title: National melodrama; title: Only for madmen; title: Flying down to Rio; title: God stirs the waters; title: Straight from the zoo; title: Hurricane Clarice; title: Trampoline to victory; title: Principessa di Napoli; title: The society of shadows; title: Volume in the brain; title: The country of a thousand years of peace; title: The public statue; title: The third experience; title: Her empty necklaces; title: Marble mausoleum; title: The intimate balance; title: Redemption through sin; title: The worst temptation; title: Belonging to Brazil; title: Better than Borges; title: The cockroach; title: And revolution!; title: The egg really is white; title: A coarse cactus; title: Possible dialogues; title: Cultural terror; title: I humanized myself; title: Monstre sacre; title: The story of instants that flee; title: Purged; title: Batuba jantiram lecoli?; title: Hen in black sauce; title: Pornography; title: The witch; title: The thing itself; title: Lispectorian silence; title: Speaking from the tomb; title: Our Lady of the Good Death.