{"title":"Clarice Lispector","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn 10 December 1920, Clarice Lispector was born, and she would go on to become a major figure of 20th century literature. Born in a village in Ukraine, she was given the name \"Haia\", which means \"life\" in Hebrew. Amid civil war and the persecution of the Jewish community (the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003epogroms\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), the family decided to emigrate: in 1922, Clarice Lispector arrived in the north-east of Brazil with her parents and two sisters. They changed their names and began a new life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1939, Clarice Lispector went to study Law in Rio de Janeiro. The following year she began working as a journalist and published her first short story in a magazine. She never stopped writing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNear to the Wild Heart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, her debut novel, came out in 1943, the year she married a Brazilian diplomat, a fellow student. Ten years later the novel was published in France, with a cover by Henri Matisse, launching a dazzling international career.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom 1944, Clarice Lispector lived in Naples, Bern, Torquay and Washington, following her husband's diplomatic career. She returned to Brazil in 1959, after the divorce. She died in 1977, in Rio de Janeiro.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten over almost four decades, some twenty books of fiction (novels and short stories), several volumes of chronicles, letters and articles, and five children's books by Clarice Lispector have been published in Brazil. The author of a body of work of incomparable importance, published in Portugal from 2025 by Companhia das Letras and taken up by the most prestigious publishers around the world, Clarice Lispector is an icon of literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"paixao-segundo-g-h","title":"Passion According to G. H.","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"77\" data-end=\"468\" class=\"\"\u003eI hope you are not a lazy reader. The Passion According to G. H. is a descent into hell. A seemingly ordinary woman crushes a cockroach in the maid's room and finds herself forced to strip away all her civilized certainties. What begins as a gesture of disgust turns into a revelation. A violent one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"470\" data-end=\"874\" class=\"\"\u003eDespite the plot, this book is not a story. It is a confrontation with what you hide beneath your neat exterior. A woman in collapse, a privileged woman in the midst of a shipwreck. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"876\" data-end=\"1154\" class=\"\"\u003eClarice writes as if she were cutting meat on a butcher's counter. With precision, innocence, and brutality. No longer appealing to bourgeois comfort, comfortable identity, or moral thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1156\" data-end=\"1489\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1156\" data-end=\"1177\"\u003eClarice Lispector\u003c\/strong\u003e (1920–1977), born in Ukraine and raised in Brazil, wrote the unspeakable. She was and remains one of the most striking authors in Portuguese literature. Reading Clarice carries the risk of never thinking the same way again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1156\" data-end=\"1489\" class=\"\"\u003eThis book is one of her hardest punches.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maldita Livraria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51157763391754,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/1507-1_a27ac21a-b5b7-4500-b281-d5d36851b907.jpg?v=1746785985"},{"product_id":"a-legiao-estrangeira","title":"The Foreign Legion","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"1124\"\u003ePublished in 1964, it is a collection of short stories and chronicles that reveals the author's maturity and the meeting point between her introspective writing and her keen eye for everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"1124\"\u003eThe book brings together texts that explore the feeling of being a stranger within and outside oneself. Clarice transforms the banal into vertigo: a dinner, a conversation, a childhood memory become territory of revelation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"1124\"\u003eIn \u003cem data-start=\"477\" data-end=\"500\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eThe Disasters of Sofia\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-start=\"502\" data-end=\"519\"\u003eNoise of Footsteps\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem data-start=\"523\" data-end=\"545\"\u003eThe Foreign Legion\u003c\/em\u003e, the reader is cast into a space where thought and emotion blur, and where meaning emerges only as a flash. Language, always in tension, is the true center of the work: silence and intuition. The title of the book - this “legion” - suggests the plurality of voices, memories, and identities that make up the human being. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1126\" data-end=\"1670\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClarice Lispector (1920–1977)\u003c\/strong\u003e, born in Ukraine and raised in Brazil, is one of the most singular figures in 20th-century literature. Her writing broke with traditional realism, introducing an introspective and philosophical prose. In books such as \u003cem data-start=\"1405\" data-end=\"1428\"\u003eThe Passion According to G.H.\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-start=\"1430\" data-end=\"1448\"\u003eFamily Ties\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"1451\" data-end=\"1470\"\u003eThe Hour of the Star\u003c\/em\u003e, Clarice explores the abyss between language and experience, between the self and the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Companhia das Letras","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52089116426506,"sku":null,"price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/a-legiao-estrangeiraCL36277-scaled.webp?v=1762618135"},{"product_id":"a-hora-da-estrela","title":"The Time of the Star","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the defining features of Clarice Lispector’s writing is the way she incorporates the fleeting and volatile into a literary work in a state of perpetual reinvention.\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe Hour of the Star\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e emerges in collision with the writer’s other fictions, introducing Rodrigo, a writer, and Macabéa, a destitute typist living in a rented room in Rio de Janeiro. It is Rodrigo who tells Macabéa’s story, a woman upon whom all misfortunes descend: orphaned and plain, ill-adapted to the city, she fills her idle time listening to the radio, alone. Rodrigo, the frivolous cosmopolitan, secretly envies the inner freedom of the wretched Macabéa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished shortly before Clarice Lispector’s death in 1977,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Hour of the Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ehas become, in recent decades, one of her most beloved novels. It is here that the writer reveals the engine of her creative restlessness and approaches, disarmingly, the mystery of life and death, bidding farewell to the world with a meteoric, eccentric, and universal work of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Clarice understands that the portrait of humanity is complex and inherently contradictory, favouring an insight that ultimately broadens our perception of how much remains in the dark. 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[…] Clarice’s miracle is that her writing remains inexpressive in the face of revelation.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eValter Hugo Mãe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Companhia das Letras","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52357545197834,"sku":"2026-MDT-LVR-240","price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/a-hora-da-estrelaCL94291-scaled.jpg?v=1767637791"},{"product_id":"agua-viva","title":"Portuguese","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRevisiting central points in Clarice Lispector's literary universe, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eÁgua viva\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is pure incandescence of inventiveness and language. An enigmatic female voice – all audacity, delirium and seduction – guides the narrative. This woman, whose name we do not know, wishes to change her profession and become a writer. She is an I that claims the occupation of a space and a time, that addresses a mysterious thou and proposes the daring alignment of humans and animals, nature and language, towards the center of life, which Clarice pursued in all her works.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChallenging limits and without yielding to convention, this book inaugurates a shared space between who writes and who reads: in this woman, in her restlessness or in her lethargy, in her fractures or in her drives, we recognize a humanity in its raw state. The fragmentary tone is countered by a cadence of demands and reflections as deeply individual as peremptorily universal. A disconcerting book, which offers a hypothesis of fusion between writing and reading, form and theme, body and thought: radically innovative, by suspending the formulas of novelistic representation, and irresistibly transgressive, in exposing the seams of fiction and the lyrical voice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eÁgua viva\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a triumph of Clarice Lispector, who here attempts a new writing of self and of the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e«Água viva is the late and nocturnal speech, at times almost somnambulant […] of a painter who wishes to change her means of expression and thus seeks to account, in this night ‘longer than life’, for her birth as a writer […]. More than witnessing this birth, the reader is given the opportunity to participate in it and in the discovery of the (i)world, with the shock of one who sees the formless take shape.»\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoana Matos Frias\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Companhia das Letras","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52357546311946,"sku":"2026-MDT-LVR-239","price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/agua-vivaCL33320-scaled.webp?v=1767637921"},{"product_id":"um-sopro-de-vida","title":"A breath of life","description":"\u003cp\u003eClarice Lispector's final book,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Breath of Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an inquiry into the meaning of existence and the act of writing in freedom. Employing an enchanting device, the writer brings into dialogue an Author and his character, the indefinable and elusive Ângela Pralini, whom we already know from another book. A man and a woman, both writers, who contemplate and question each other in the reflection of one another. As they meditate on their creative crises and the role reserved for them by the world outside the pages, they end up instilling doubt in the reader. Who is the creator and who is the creature? Which of them is closer to Clarice herself? Which thread do we choose to follow, fiction, the fictional idea, or the unique universe of a unique writer?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClarice Lispector worked on this book during the last years of her life, revealing the intense dialogue that is also established between the writer and her literary creation. Published posthumously,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Breath of Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eilluminates the pulse of a writing that has no equal in the Portuguese language, and remains as the legacy of a disruptive, timeless, and always admirable literary project.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e«A wandering book, concrete and minute, abstract and inexpressible, an intelligence of the senses and sensations, even more so than of thought. It thus becomes a constant surprise, demand, and audacity […]. More than an unfinished and posthumous book,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Breath of Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ereminds us of our common posthumous and unfinished condition.»\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePedro Mexia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Companhia das Letras","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52357547327754,"sku":"2026-MDT-LVR-238","price":17.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/um-sopro-de-vidaCL33337-scaled.webp?v=1767637970"},{"product_id":"perto-do-coracao-selvagem","title":"Close to the Wild Heart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere are books that forever divert the course of an entire literature. They do not do so alone – sometimes they echo the avant-gardes of their time, sometimes they tear through prevailing precepts; in rarer cases, they anticipate a certain future. This is the case with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNear to the Wild Heart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Clarice Lispector's debut novel. Published in the year the writer turned 23, it tells the story of Joana: from a childhood marked by her father's death and the loneliness of boarding school, to adulthood, with a marriage far from the one she had dreamed of, motherhood, a passion for an enigmatic man and, finally, an inevitable dispersal of the self, of identity, of life's course.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoana is a supremely free woman, not confined by the limits of her time, unavailable to contain her voice, her thoughts or her vital desire, determined not to take any steps towards the heart of existence that are not her own. 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