Clarice Lispector: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

A biography is Benjamin Moser, Why This World (2009). Other studies include Cláudia Pazos Alonso and Claire Williams (eds.), Closer to the Wild Heart: Essays on Clarice Lispector (2001); Hélène Cixous, Reading with Clarice Lispector (1990; originally published in French, edited, translated, and introduced by Verena Andermatt Conley); Diane E. Marting (ed.), Clarice Lispector: A Bio-Bibliography (1993); Marta Peixoto, Passionate Fictions: Gender, Narrative, and Violence in Clarice Lispector (1994); and Earl E. Fitz, Clarice Lispector (1985), and Sexuality and Being in the Poststructuralist Universe of Clarice Lispector (2001).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. Dec 06, 2025
Anniversary information added. Dec 05, 2025
First paragraph modernization. Mar 22, 2024
Add new Web site: Jewish Women's Archive - Biography of Clarice Lispector. Apr 21, 2018
Modified title of Web site: Jewish Women's Archive - Biography of Clarice Lispector. Apr 21, 2018
Noted recent English translations of her work. Aug 24, 2015
Benjamin Moser's 2009 biography of Lispector added, together with two additional studies. Jul 01, 2010
Mention of Lispector's birthplace and childhood added. Also noted the difficulty of translating her work. Jul 01, 2010
Added new Web site: Vidas Lusofonas - Biography of Clarice Lispector. May 19, 2009
Bibliography revised. May 16, 2007
Article revised and updated. May 15, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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