Clarice Lispector: All cards

with his books novels And stories, correspondence was one of the writer’s passionsWith his letters, we find the opportunity to follow forty years of his life journey. The anxieties accompanying his developmental years, the obstacles he has overcome to bring it to life; the challenges of a woman who wants to be herself in a very limited feminine universe.

Literary, personal, family and all kinds of universe can be followed by reading all of these correspondences, a total of 284 letters. inspector sent to family, friends and publishers and now published in Spanish by the publisher siruela Under the heading ‘All cards’. They contain a large amount of previously unpublished material.or through a lengthy investigation by the journalist Larisa VazTo provide a holistic vision of the person and the author, under the guidance of biographers and their relatives.

While reading this correspondence we find a CLarice solves the mystery of all the stickers affixed to her On a sophisticated and worldly woman: “I never wanted to be super-intellectual. I never thought of taking any stand. I lead a very ordinary life. I am raising my children. I take care of the house. I like to see my friends, the rest is legend. Criticism almost always messes things up,” she pointed out in a letter to one of her sisters. On the contrary, we will find a woman who is conscious of her obligations and at the same time strives to fulfill her desires. We will see that Clarice is extremely insecure: “I’m made of so little material and my balance is so fragile that I need extreme security feeling more or less secure”, writes to his sister Tania, doubting and unsatisfied with her literary work: “How I doubted, how terrible what I wrote seems to me, how sometimes it seems wonderful to me, and after two days it is not worth anything, How did I learn to be patient?the writer confesses to his friend lucio cardoso, “the most important person in my life during my adolescence.” We will also discover that needy woman who anxiously asks her sisters to write to her; and at the same time protecting your privacy and moments of solitude; it’s also the perfect time to get to know her as a sister who is almost a mother to her two sisters. Tanya And ElisaShe is a mother who is both older and very loving towards her children. As if we were allowed to enter his forty years of daily life: from the period before his marriage to his residence in America. United States of America and its return Brazil.

The reader can follow the progress. Clarice Lispector As a woman who dared to be a writer in the last century, at a time when the Brazilian Academy of Letters was not considering changing the statute to allow women in. She struggled hard on this issue: months before she died, she wrote a letter to her writer friend. Lygia Fagundes Telles be”The Brazilian Academy of Letters owes a lot to women.»; Despite this, it was clear to him that he “would never agree to enter”.

In the letters, as the Brazilian professor noted Peter Karp In the epilogue to this volume of the review, Clarice wouldn’t waste much time with secrets. and he wrote about his own feelings and the writings he was working on, so the letters are a meaningful testimony about the writing process and ongoing literary production.

Therefore, his letters provide a multitude of keys to understanding his writings; inspector. It is a very rich correspondence regarding the writing process and the real motivations that guided the production of his literary work. A class for those who want to write professionally. WITHHere are all the unpublished correspondence between Clarice and famous authorsespecially with lucio cardoso And Ferdinand Sabino, admired and always followed; also correspondence with the poet Joao Cabral de Melo that Clarice served as a writer and expressed her thoughts on the novel as “a non-literary art” and the need to “do something new, look different”; Also, however Rubem Bragaadmired as a historian; or letters to his literary colleagues mario de andrade, Tasso da Silveira, Francis of Assisi Barbosa and others who assisted him in his desire to find his own literary voice.

The collection aims to guide who you are. klaricea writer who never likes to justify his work and is characterized by being extremely timid; exceptionally shows us how Clarice Lispector she transformed her personal struggle as a woman into a series of literary works that resonated universally, thanks to the magnetic power of her writing and the enduring charisma of all her written works.