![]() ![]() References to her literary work pervade the music and literature of Brazil and Latin America. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. Clarice Lispector's spare, deeply disturbing yet luminous novel transforms language into something otherworldly, and is one of her most unsettling and compelling works.Ĭlarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her irresistible fascination with the dying insect provokes a spiritual crisis, in which she questions her place in the universe and her very identity, propelling her towards an act of shocking transgression. ![]() There she sees a cockroach - black, dusty, prehistoric - crawling out of the wardrobe and, panicking, slams the door on it. G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. ![]() One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Books by Women ![]()
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