“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort”
“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort”
"I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.”
Clarice Lispector
By the Editors of
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Clarice Lispector, (born December 10, 1920, Chechelnyk, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died December 9, 1977, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), novelist and short-story writer, one of Brazil’s most important literary figures, who is considered to be among the greatest women writers of the 20th century. Lispector achieved international fame with works that depict a highly personal, almost existentialist view of the human dilemma and are written in a prose style characterized by a simple vocabulary and elliptical sentence structure. She is notoriously difficult to translate. [...] Her artistic vision transcends time and place; her characters, in elemental situations of crisis, are frequently female and only incidentally modern or Brazilian.
