From the massive treasure house of her hugely successful Complete Stories, gathered here are the most glittering gems of Clarice Lispector’s short fiction
Here are twenty gems from the massive treasure house of Clarice Lispector's Complete Stories, named a best book of the year by The New York Times, NPR, BBC, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Buzzfeed, Kirkus Reviews, Boston Globe, and The San Francisco Chronicle.
Sphinx, sorceress, sacred monster. The revival of the hypnotic Clarice Lispector has been one of the true literary events of the 21st century.
— Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
Lispector reads with lively intelligence and is terrifically funny. Language, for her, was the self’s light.
— Lorrie Moore
Every page vibrates with feeling. It’s not enough to say that Lispector bends language or uses words in new ways. Plenty of modernists do that. No one else writes prose this rich.
— Lily Meyer, NPR
One of the great literary discoveries of the past decade, for the English-speaking world, is the work of Clarice Lispector.
