Reading with Clarice Lispector
1990
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The foremost French feminist literary critic pays homage to the premiere Latin American woman prose writer of this century.
The foremost French feminist literary critic pays homage to the premiere Latin American woman prose writer of this century.
Edited, translated, and introduced by Verena Andermatt Conley.
The foremost French feminist literary critic pays homage to the premiere Latin American woman prose writer of this century.
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“Whether as novelist or short story writer, Lispector always seemed to be involved with the ambiguities of living, the pleasures derived from it as well as its tragic aspects.” --San Francisco Review of Books
