In the 1960s, the Spaniard Jaime Vilaseca was a carpenter in Rio de Janeiro until a fateful encounter with Clarice Lispector, for whom he had gone to make a bookcase in her apartment in the Leme neighborhood. The writer had silently watched him working during those days, and when the furniture was finished, she looked at him and said: “You’re going to be a framer.” Faced with the man’s hesitation, she completed the prediction: “You won’t escape your destiny!” Since then, for over fifty years, Jaime Vilaseca has lived off this profession, for which he is renowned, besides having become a curator and owner of an art gallery. In this conversation with the poet Eucanaã Ferraz, the framer talks about his friendship with Clarice Lispector and tells his stories that served as a source of inspiration for texts by the writer, such as the famous short story “The First Kiss,” from the book Covert Joy.
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- 16/09/2021
A frame for Clarice Lispector

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11/12/2017
Clarice’s biography now has a Spanish edition
by Victor HeringerWritten by Benjamin Moser, Clarice Lispector’s biography Why This World (Oxford University Press, 2009) continues to circulate around the world.

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23/07/2019
“Love Smells Like Death”
by Bruno CosentinoClarice Lispector wrote about sex only once. It was in the book A via crúcis do corpo (The Via Crucis of the Body).

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28/04/2014
Without Formulas
by Elizama AlmeidaIn 1970, Clarice Lispector started to write a work that would come to be called Água Viva. Published at the end of August 1973 by Artenova, what follows is a manuscript.

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02/05/2018
Conversation with José Castello
by Bruno CosentinoThe critic José Castello will teach new classes for Grupo Clarice, a group dedicated to the reading and study of the works of Clarice Lispector. Among the works discussed are...

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26/06/2017
50 years of The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit
by Elizama AlmeidaWritten in the 1950s, during the period in which she lived in Washington, The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit was the first children’s book written by Clarice Lispector.

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22/02/2013
Clarice is pop
by Elizama AlmeidaAccording to a survey done by YouPIX in June 2012, Clarice is the most quoted writer on Twitter. Every day more than 3.5 thousand phrases by the author – or attributed to her – are posted on there.