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Água viva by Clarice Lispector, Stefan Tobler (translation), Benjamin Moser (editor) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally innovative, & philosophically profound as Clarice Lispector’s, Água Viva stands out as a particular triumph.°°° Clarice Lispector was born in 1920 to a Jewish family in western Ukraine. As a result of the anti-Semitic violence they endured, the family fled to Brazil in 1922, & Clarice Lispector grew up in Recife. Following the death of her mother when Clarice was nine, she moved to Rio de Janeiro with her father & two sisters, & she went on to study law. With her husband, who worked for the foreign service, she lived in Italy, Switzerland, England, & the United States, until they separated & she returned to Rio in 1959; she died there in 1977. Since her death, Clarice Lispector has earned universal recognition as Brazil’s greatest modern writer. Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called “astounding” (Rachel Kushner), “a pene

Who reads Água viva?

Author

Clarice Lispector, Stefan Tobler (translation), Benjamin Moser (editor)

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811220729

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, World Fiction

Rating

4.16 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14