Ian Thomson

‘She’s the most important Jewish writer since Kafka!’

Clarice Lispector is revered in Brazil. Benjamin Moser's fascinating biography deserves to make her much better known here

The young Clarice Lispector was strikingly beautiful, with catlike green eyes and ‘very, very sexy’, remembered a friend [Getty Images/iStock/Shutterstock/Alamy]
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  • Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

    Benjamin Moser

    Penguin Books, pp. 479

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