Clarice Lispector: life and work

Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) was one of the greatest writers of Brazilian literature and criou works-prima as A Hora da Estrela, A Paixão Segundo G.H. and Family Laços.

Formally, a writer is considered to belong to the third phase of modernism, however it is possible to affirm that Clarice's writing is timeless and goes through gerações.

Biography

Or birth of Clarice

Clarice na realidade nasceu Haia Lispector, a third filha de um casal composed by Pinkouss, merchant, and Mania Lispector, house donor. Before the girl is born to a family já tinha duas meninas: Leia and Tania.

They all live in Tchetchelnik, a small village in Ukraine that belongs to Russia. Each row was born in a city: Leia, first, in Savran, Tania in Teplik and Clarice já in Tchetchelnik.

A moving from the Lispector family to Brazil

Judeus, a family decided to emigrate towards a life that was especially fugitive from anti-Semitism in his native land.

A Lispector família então pegou or ship Cuyabá rumo Maceió in 1926. Zina and José Rabin (Clarice's uncles) are waiting for you, merchants from the city. O pai de Clarice começou logo to work with José Rabin as a Muscat.

Foi em only Brazilian that a greater part of the family adotou um novo nome: o pai virou Pedro, mãe Marieta, irmã mais velha Elisa and Haia became Clarice.

In 1925, the family decided to move from Alagoas to Pernambuco, where they settled, not Bairro da Boa Vista.

When Clarice was nine years old, she signed up for me. To follow, in 1934, I migrated to Rio de Janeiro.

Training

Clarice face exam of admission not Ginásio Pernambucano and it was approved. He tries to publish a series of short stories and is challenged every time.

Enters the National College of Direction of the University of Brazil (not Rio de Janeiro) in 1941. During this period she worked as a secretary, deposited in a directive writing, in a laboratory and finally in the National Agency's editorial office. To survive she also faced some translations of scientific texts.

Published works

• Perto do Coração Selvagem (romance, 1944)
• O Luster (romance, 1946)
• A Cidade Besieged (romance, 1949)
• Some Contos (contos, 1952)
• Family Laços (contos, 1960)
• A Maçã no Escuro (romance, 1961)
• To Paixão Segundo G.H. (romance, 1961)
• To Legião Estrangeira (contos e chronicles, 1964)
• O Mistério do Coelho Pensante (children's literature, 1967)
• To Mulher Que Matou os Peixes (children's literature, 1969)
• Uma Aprendizagem ou Livro dos Prazeres (romance, 1969)
• Felicidade de Clandestina (contos, 1971)
• Living Water (romance, 1973)
• Imitation of Rose (contos, 1973)
• To Via Crucis do Corpo (contos, 1974)
• A Intimate Life of Laura (children's literature, 1974)
• A Hora da Estrela (romance, 1977)
• A Bela e a Fera (contos, 1978)

Jornalismo

In 1959, after a non-foreign season next to her diplomat husband, Clarice returned to Brazil and went to work on the Jornal Correio da Manhã where she drove to Coluna Correio Feminino.

No Diário da Noite também assina a coluna uma coluna (Only for Mulheres).

She published chronicles no Jornal do Brasil from 1967, or that I have imense visibility. She was invited to participate in the Consultative Council of the Instituto Nacional do Livro.

Awards received

• Prize Graça Aranha de melhor livro do ano pela obra Perto do coração selvagem
• Prêmio Jabuti light hair Family ties
• Prize Carmen Dolores Barbosa light hair A maçã not dark
• Prêmio Jabuti light hair At the hour of the star
• Prêmio Golfinho de Ouro hair romance Uma apprenticeship or O livro dos prazeres
• Prize offered by Campanha Nacional da Criança light hair O mistério do thinking coelho
• Joint prize for the work offered by the Fundação Cultural do Distrito Federal

Casamento

Clarice Lispector married as a friend of Turma Maury Gurgel Valente, who would go on to become a diplomat.

The marriage lasted between 1943 and 1959 and ended due to divorce.

Filhos

O casal Clarice e Maury you have two films: Pedro Gurgel Valente (1948) and Paulo Gurgel Valente (1953).

Check out an interview with Clarice's youngest filho about her relationship with my writer:

Doença

Clarice Lispector was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer and had a metastasis that led to her death on December 9, 1977, at age 56, the day before her anniversary.

Phrases

I don't have time for anything else, being happy consumes me a lot.

Freedom and little. Or that eu desired ainda não tem nome.

Do not worry about understanding, viver exceeds any understanding.

Let no one be fooled, only simplicity is achieved through a lot of work.

A vida é curta, more emotions that we can leave for eternity.

Conheça As most incredible phrases by Clarice Lispector explained.

Poems

Despite being recognized by the public for poems, to the truth that Clarice Lispector did not escrevia regularly in the form of verses and the mute that circulates on the days of the leaf not to be dry authorship.

Clarise seldom wrote poetry in a classical format, and for a long time she has been invested in her career in chronicles, stories and romances that carry a certain lyricism.

In a rare moment of pure poetic exercise, Clarice chegou to show an exemplary two verses of her for the poet Manuel Bandeira. Reply to the poet in a letter dated November 23 addressed to Clarice Lispector:

Você é poeta, Clarice dear. Até hoje I have remorse that you say I respect two verses that you showed me. You misinterpreted the minhas words […] faça verses, Clarice, e se lembre de mim.

Main criações

Livro A Hora da Estrela

Considered by many as the greatest work of Clarice, A Hora da Estrela (published in 1977) tells the story of a northeastern emigrant called Macabéa who moves to try to win a life in a big city.

Quem narrates this story and Rodrigo S. M., a little subject who reflects not only on the costume of the poor girl as well as investigating questões related to his own written and years serious limits enquanto narrator. Rodrigo wonders: is it possible to give voice to another person?

Macabéia is a humble girl as another qualifier, with a great interest and a great motivation. O leitor identifies himself as a solitary person and who seems to be abandoned to his own devices.

Despite writing in the form of prose, the work and pure poetry and was a response given by Clarice after a series of criticisms that they say that she did not portray or real frustration of the Brazilian povo.

Find out an in-depth analysis ofA Hora da Estrela.

Livro Clandestine Felicidade

Published in 1971, the work brings together twenty and five reports (some of them previously published on a daily basis, others unpublished).

Here Clarice narrates small past stories in Recife and in Rio de Janeiro between the fifties and sixties. Muitas dessas composições tem um forte autobiographical tom.

The main topics covered over the course of two pages are in the memory of infância, os existential dilemmas e a solidão. Its written, traditionally reflective, invites or reader to occupy a place of temporary discomfort.

Count Love

Posted not free Family ties em 1960, or count Love é two most celebrated by Clarice Lispector.

A protagonist Ana is a pessoa common that a beautiful day, a meio gives her vulgar rotina, and interrupted by a Epiphany that to face refletir on yourdo or that it is owned by her.

Mãe, wife and housewife, Ana always fulfills her tasks with great questions. I added that, during a passeio, she sees janela do bonde um blind chewing gum. This simple dinner takes away a series of feelings that gives you anxiety.

Discover or tell Love.

Modernism

Clarice Lispector is considered theoretical hairs of literature as a relevant writer of the third phase of Brazilian modernism. The author fez part of the conhecida geração of 45.

Interview

Clarice granted her last interview on February 1, 1977 for TV Cultura. This precious material is available online:

Conheça also

• Clarice Lispector: annotated poetic texts
• The poems of Carlos Drummond de Andrade