IMS, Equipe. Little Readings. IMS Clarice Lispector, 2025. Disponível em: https://site.claricelispector.ims.com.br/en/2025/12/10/pequenas-leituras/. Acesso em: 06 January 2026.
In the 2025 edition of Clarice’s Hour, we will celebrate, through the voices and presentations of kids, the children’s story “Laura’s Intimate Life,” published as a book by Clarice Lispector in 1974. In this film, six children retell, act, illustrate, and co-direct the story of Laura the hen, her husband Luís, and their son Hermany in Dona Luísa’s henhouse.
The short film is the fruit of work that took place during the 2025 school year and involved professionals from the Literature Department and students from the Rio de Janeiro municipal school system, combining education, literature, and art, in three stages. In the preparation phase, each child received a copy of the book (donated by the publisher Rocco) and participated in a shared reading activity; next, they discussed the story with their parents at home; and in the third stage – which was creative and artistic – they acted out a few passages from the story and illustrated three scenes. These are the drawings that bring color to the film in a unique retelling of the story of Laura the hen.
A vida íntima de Laura (Laura’s Intimate Life) was conceived by Bruno Cosentino and Eucanaã Ferraz, directed by Laura Liuzzi and Bruno Cosentino, edited by Laura Liuzzi, produced by Bruno Cosentino, and supported by the Rocco publishing house.
See also
by Elizama Almeida
Among the items that make up the Clarice Lispector Collection, which has been at the IMS since 2004, are two paintings by the author.
by Yudith Rosenbaum
The word “unfamiliar” is used by Clarice Lispector in several of her works. To be precise, in the original Portuguese, Clarice employed the neologism infamiliar, which is not in the dictionary, though it cannot be affirmed that the author is the source of this term in Brazilian literature. Nonetheless, by mentioning the word “unfamiliar” at least sixteen times, whether in novels, short stories, or chronicles, the author makes this unique signifier an object of greater attention.
by Bruno Cosentino
Clarice Lispector wrote about sex only once. It was in the book A via crúcis do corpo (The Via Crucis of the Body).
by Equipe IMS
In this video lesson, Mell Brites, author of the book As Crianças de Clarice: Narrativas da Infância e Outras Revelações (The Children of Clarice: Narratives of Childhood and Other Revelations), addresses the theme of childhood in Clarice Lispector’s literature, both in her children's books and in those aimed at an adult audience.
by Betty Bernardo Fuks
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 Elizama Almeida
Written 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.
