Why This World by Benjamin Moser

Why This World by Benjamin Moser

"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 unknown manuscripts and dozens of interviews, Benjamin Moser demonstrates how Lispector's development as a writer was directly connected to the story of her turbulent life. Born in the nightmarish landscape of post-World War I Ukraine, Clarice became, virtually from adolescence, a person whose beauty, genius, and eccentricity intrigued Brazil. Why This World tells how this precocious girl, through long exile abroad and difficult personal struggles, matured into a great writer. It also asserts, for the first time, the deep roots in the Jewish mystical tradition that make her the true heir to Kafka as well as the unlikely author of "perhaps the greatest spiritual autobiography of the twentieth century." From Chechelnik to Recife, from Naples and Berne to Washington and Rio de Janeiro, Why This World strips away the mythology surrounding this extraordinary figure and shows how Clarice Lispector transformed one woman's struggles into a universally resonant art. A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist A New York Times Notable Book An L.A. Times Nonfiction Favorite

Benjamin Moser is a contributor to the New York Review of Books and Condé Nast Traveler, as well as a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine. He is the Editor of New Directions' Clarice Lispector series, which he launched with his translation of The Hour of the Star. He currently resides in the Netherlands.

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ISBN 13	9780199895823
ISBN 10	0199895821
Title	Why This World
Author	Benjamin Moser
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2012-05-01
Number of pages	496
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