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Why This World

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Why This World

By Benjamin Moser

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About the book

"That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf," Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers, and now in Why this World, after years of research on three continents, drawing on previously unknown manuscripts and dozens of interviews, Benjamin Moser demonstrates how Lispector's development as a writer was directly connected to the story of her turbulent life. Born in the nightmarish landscape of post-World War I Ukr...Show more

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9781846147814

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2014

Language

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1

Original title

Why This World

Format

Paperback

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