Because of her preoccupations with language and philosophy, she was accused at times of being indifferent to the actual plight of her fellow Brazilians. The novel took a radical turn from the regional stories popular in Brazil at the time, and with its help Lispec-tor soon became known for her introspective fiction and its exploration of philosophical, universal themes. Her first novel, Close to the Savage Heart, was published to critical acclaim when Lispector was only 24 years old. In 1932 her family moved south to Rio de Janeiro, where, after completing law school, Lispector became one of her country’s most successful journalists and well-regarded writers. Her family relocated to Brazil when Clarice was two months old, and she spent a happy childhood in the beautiful but poverty-stricken Northeastern city of Recife. While portraying her bleak existence, he wrestles with his own questions of ethics, meaning, and social justice.Įvents in History at the Time the Novel Takes PlaceĬlarice Lispector was born in 1920 in the Ukraine to a family of Slavonic-Jewish descent. A novel set in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the 1970s published (as A hora de estrela) in Portuguese in 1977, in English in 1985.Ī male narrator struggles to write the story of a poor, uneducated young woman from the rural Northeast who lives in the dockside tenements of Rio de Janeiro.
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