, Clarice in France. IMS Clarice Lispector, 2017. Disponível em: https://site.claricelispector.ims.com.br/en/2017/10/19/clarice-na-franca/. Acesso em: 19 April 2026.
By launching in 2015, in the United States, the unprecedented collection in one book of all the short stories by Clarice Lispector, the researcher Benjamin Moser took a new step in his tireless task of disseminating abroad the work of the Brazilian writer, who deserved a beautiful and acclaimed biography. The Complete Stories (New Directions Publishing) won over audiences and critics, and was elected by The New York Times as one of the 100 best books published that year. In 2016, Rocco, Clarice’s publishing house, to the delight of numerous fans, launched the Brazilian edition of the work, entitled Todos os contos. Now, on this 19th of October, the collection of 85 texts – which begins with her first story published at the age of 19 – crosses a new frontier, reaching French bookstores under the title Nouvelles – Édition Complete, published by Des Femmes-Antoinette Fouque.
The edition – eight translators made the French version based on Brazilian texts – helps to further consolidate Clarice’s presence in France, a country that already has many admirers of the author’s work, disseminated mainly by the essayist and literary critic Hélène Cixous. An attraction for French readers is that ten of these stories were still unpublished there. And as further proof that the passion only increases, this year France will promote Clarice’s Hour, an event created by the Moreira Salles Institute to celebrate the writer’s birthday, on December 10th.
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Benjamin Moser, one of the most significant biographers of Clarice Lispector, said in an interview that one of his goals in writing Why This World, published in the United States and translated into Portuguese as Clarice, uma biografia, was to make space for a theme rarely explored by literary critics, commentators, and biographers: the writer’s “Judeity.” Most tend to limit themselves to reflecting on her “Brazilianness,” “as if one had to choose between being Jewish and being Brazilian.”
by Rubem Braga
It would be possible to say that Clarice Lispector’s finesse recalls that of Virginia Woolf – which actually seems to be her strongest influence. But what most surprises and captivates me in Clarice’s short stories...
by Bruno Cosentino
The writer Ana Maria Machado had an unusual and emotional episode with Clarice Lispector. This happened in 1975. After having read an article by Ana Maria, published that very day in the Jornal do Brasil, about the birthday of the writer Roland Barthes, Clarice, who did not know her personally, insistently asked her for help to organize what in two years would be the book The Hour of the Star.
by Victor Heringer
The professor and writer Evando Nascimento gave a class on the work of Clarice Lispector at the IMS Rio. His talk is based on the category of “thinking literature.”
by Elizama Almeida
Every year the University of Tennessee prepares AuthorFest, a series of activities to celebrate the work of a single author. In its second edition, AuthorFest paid tribute to Clarice Lispector.
by Bruno Cosentino
This August, Todas as crônicas will be released, a volume that brings together for the first time all the chronicles written by Clarice Lispector for newspapers and magazines.
