Dear Clarice, Rereading your stories after so long makes me feel as if I were looking through colour-stained glass: each story comes with the shadow of my previous reading of it. The shadow of how it felt like at the time; the stain of what I had not understood properly then, and do now; or…
Day: February 10, 2017
Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector (born Chaya, December 10, 1920 – December 9, 1977) was a Brazilian writer. She was born to a Jewish family in Chechelnyk, Podolia, a shtetl in what today is Ukraine. Having suffered in the pogroms during the Russian Civil War that followed the dissolution of the Russian Empire, her family fled to Romania, from where…
