Why this world : a biography of Clarice Lispector / Benjamin Moser.

Author/creator Moser, Benjamin, 1976-
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Descriptionviii, 479 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Subjects
Lispector, Clarice.
Authors, Brazilian--20th century. --Biography.

Contents The Sphinx -- Fun vonen is a yid? -- That irrational something -- The average pogrom -- The missing name -- Statue of Liberty -- Griene gringos -- The magical stories -- National melodrama -- Only for madmen -- Flying down to Rio -- God stirs the waters -- Straight from the zoo -- Hurricane Clarice -- Trampoline to victory -- Principessa di Napoli -- The society of shadows -- Volume in the brain -- The country of a thousand years of peace -- The public statue -- The third experience -- Her empty necklaces -- Marble mausoleum -- The intimate balance -- Redemption through sin -- The worst temptation -- Belonging to Brazil -- Better than Borges -- The cockroach -- And revolution! -- The egg really is white -- A coarse cactus -- Possible dialogues -- Cultural terror -- "I humanized myself" -- Monstre sacré -- The story of instants that flee -- Purged -- Batuba jantiram lecoli? -- Hen in black sauce -- Pornography -- The witch -- The thing itself -- Lispectorian silence -- Speaking from the tomb -- Our Lady of the Good Death.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [395]-446) and index.
LCCN 2008055639
ISBN9780195385564 (acid-free paper) :
ISBN019538556X (acid-free paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PQ9697.L585 Z777 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold