Lispector, Clarice

Lispector, Clarice (klâr'is lēspek'tur) [key], 1925–77, Brazilian author, b. Ukraine. An editor, translator, newspaper columnist, and law student as well as fiction writer, Lispector traveled widely and was influenced by Virginia Woolf and Katharine Mansfield. Many of her nine novels, e.g., The Apple in the Dark (1961, tr. 1967) and The Hour of the Star (1977, tr. 1986), and eight short-story collections, e.g., Family Ties (1960, tr. 1972) and Soulstorm (1989), focus on human isolation and moral uncertainty.

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