The Complete Stories

About this book

Clarice Lispectors Complete Stories 85 in all are an epiphany among the important books of thisor anyyear The recent publication by New Directions of five Lispector novels revealed to legions of new readers her darkness and dazzle. Now for the first time in English are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who dont know what to do with themselves. Clarices stories take us through their livesand ours. From one of the greatest modern writers these stories gathered from the nine collections published during her lifetime follow an unbroken time line of success as a writer from her adolescence to her death bed.