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Among the era's most brilliant essayists. She is masterful, even reminiscent of Montaigne, in her ability to spin the mundane events of life into moments of clarity that reveal greater truths. Superb, wonderfully obsessed with exuberance and what it unlocks and reveals. -- Publishers Weekly Clarice Lispector had a diamond-hard intelligence, a visionary instinct, and a sense of humor that veered from naif wonder to wicked comedy...[about] the 'marvelous scandal, ' as Lispector puts it, of life. -- Bookforum Her cronicas muddied demarcations between nonfiction and fiction, resurrecting the oldest question of form: Where does nonfiction truly end and fiction begin? -- Paris Review Page after page of thoughts, worries, inspirations, and commentaries...Topics include men, women, sons, maids, cooks, and taxi drivers...[and] ruminations on weariness and rage...[that] speak to contemporary readers. -- Library Journal (starred review) This long flirtation with her readers was a triumphant metamorphosis for the avant garde author. -- Times Literary Supplement (London)

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Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), a Ukrainian-born Brazilian, has been called one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. Margaret Jull Costa has been translating Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American fiction for over twenty years. She won the translator's portion of the 1997 IMPAC Award for Javier Marias' Heart So White and the 2006 Premio Valle-Inclan for her translation of the first volume of his trilogy Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear.

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