Água Viva
Clarice Lispector, Stefan Tobler (translation), Benjamin Moser (editor)°°°
Clarice Lispector was born in 1920 to a Jewish family in western Ukraine. As a result of the anti-Semitic violence they endured, the family fled to Brazil in 1922, & Clarice Lispector grew up in Recife. Following the death of her mother when Clarice was nine, she moved to Rio de Janeiro with her father & two sisters, & she went on to study law. With her husband, who worked for the foreign service, she lived in Italy, Switzerland, England, & the United States, until they separated & she returned to Rio in 1959; she died there in 1977. Since her death, Clarice Lispector has earned universal recognition as Brazil’s greatest modern writer.
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called “astounding” (Rachel Kushner), “a penetrating genius” (Donna Seaman, Booklist), & “one of the twentieth century’s most mysterious writers” (Orhan Pamuk).
Born in Belém, Brazil, Stefan Tobler is the publisher of And Other Stories and, whenever time permits, a translator from Portuguese & German. His translation of Arno Geiger’s The Old King in His Exile was shortlisted for both the Helen & Kurt Wolff Prize & Schlegel-Tieck Prize, & his other translations include the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize-shortlisted Água Viva by Clarice Lispector & the Man Booker International Prize finalist A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar.