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 An attraction for French readers is that ten of these stories were still unpublished there.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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by Patrick Gert Bange
In a small, vast, and brilliant book called Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, by Hélène Cixous (1993), the author is taken to three schools by writers that she loves: the School of the Dead, the School of Dreams, and the School of Roots. One of the books that transport Cixous to the School of Dreams is Clarice Lispector’s second published novel, The Chandelier.
by Sônia Roncador
The frequent allusion to domestic servants in the urban environment of her chronicles demonstrates what is a reality for many middle-class families in the country: incorporated into the intimate environment of the home in the condition of a “domesticated outsider”, the domestic servant constitutes the most lasting and personal relationship that a member of the middle class allows themselves to establish with poverty.
by Elizama Almeida
Mineirinho, one of the Rio de Janeiro police’s most wanted criminals during the 1960s. José Miranda Rosa earned this nickname, naturally, for being born in the state of Minas Gerais.
by Maria Clara Bingemer
The numerous commentators who not only in Brazil but also throughout the world investigate Clarice Lispector’s work encounter several aspects to highlight in her multifaceted writing.1 From the fruitful tension between transcendence and contingence to the profound and refined attention to the human condition, one can encounter an immense variety of dimensions in her body of writings.
by Antonio Xerxenesky
Clarice left various papers with drafts to calculate responses provided by the I Ching. Some of the questions are scribbled, such as “What’s my future in general?”
by Paloma Vidal
A chronicle of the encounter with the manuscripts of The Hour of the Star by Paloma Vidal for the new edition of the novella.
