Clarice Lispector

Writing

Clarice Lispector

Born — Died

1920-12-10 — 1977-12-09

Place of birth

Chechelnyk, Ukraine

Known for

Writing

Credits

7 titles

Clarice Lispector (born Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector (Ukrainian: Хая Пінкасівна Ліспектор; Yiddish: חיה פּינקאַסיװנאַ ליספּעקטאָר) was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her innovative, idiosyncratic works explore a variety of narrative styles with themes of intimacy and introspection, and have subsequently been internationally acclaimed. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Central Ukraine, as an infant she moved to Brazil with her family, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War.

Known for

The Egg poster
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Writer and poet Clarice Lispector investigates and develops the old question of what came first, the egg or the chicken.

The Egg

2003

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Writer Clarice Lispector investigates and develops the old question of what came first, the egg or the chicken.

The Egg and The Chicken

2010

Hiatus poster
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A fragmented tribute to Ukranian-Brazilian novelist and fashion journalist Clarice Lispector that interrogates the idea of "in-betweenness," the intermission, a hiatus.

Hiatus

2018

Clarice Lispector: A Descoberta do Mundo poster
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Documentary essay made from several cuts of interviews with Clarice Lispector and her family and friends in a visual poetic seam of adapted excerpts from her work.

Clarice Lispector: A Descoberta do Mundo

2023

Perto de Clarice poster
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Aspects of writer Clarice Lispector's personality and soul remembered on the occasion of her death in the testimony of friends. The testimonies are interspersed with excerpts from an interview that Clarice gave in life to a television station.

Perto de Clarice

1982

Panorama with Clarice Lispector poster
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A rare interview of Clarice Lispector, from 1977, to Julio Lerner, TV Cultura reporter. After its recording, Clarice asked for the interview to be aired only after her passing. It went on air ten months later. Clarice died in December 1977, aged 57. "Uma rara entrevista de Clarice Lispector, concedida em 1977, ao repórter Júlio Lerner, da TV Cultura. Depois de gravada, Clarice pediu que a entrevista só fosse divulgada após sua morte. Foi ao ar dez meses depois. Clarice morreu em dezembro de 1977, aos 57 anos."

Panorama with Clarice Lispector

1977

Film credits

Behind the camera