Every year the University of Tennessee prepares AuthorFest, a series of activities to celebrate the work of a single author. During the month of October 2016, in its second edition, AuthorFest paid tribute to Clarice Lispector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among the events offered to the public, in a collaboration between the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Knox County Public Library, there was a guided reading of The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit<\/em>, an exhibition of works of art by Professor Rubens Ghenov inspired by the novel The Passion According to G.H.<\/em>, and a session of the film The Hour of the Star<\/em>, which was directed by Suzana Amaral, followed by a discussion mediated by Euridice Silva-Filho, research professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the most anticipated activities of LispectorFest was the lecture by Katrina Dodson, translator of the Complete Stories <\/em>(New Directions, 2016). <\/em>In \u201c<\/em>Rediscovering Clarice\u201d Katrina comments, from her own experience, on the influence of the recent translation in the construction of a kind of \u201cLispectormania.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The IMS, in partnership with UT Knoxville\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences, has made this lecture available in full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n