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WHY THIS WORLD - BENJAMIN MOSER KARTONIERT (TB)

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 Ukraine  Clarice became  virtually from adolescence  a person
whose beauty  genius  and eccentricity intrigued Brazil. Why This World tells how this
precocious girl  through long exile abroad and difficult personal struggles  matured into a
great writer  and asserts  for the first time  the deep roots in the Jewish mystical tradition
that make her the true heir to Kafka as well as the unlikely author of perhaps the greatest
spiritual autobiography of the twentieth century. From Chechelnik to Recife  from Naples and
Bern to Washington and Rio de Janeiro  Why This World strips away the mythology surrounding
this extraordinary figure and shows how Clarice Lispector transformed one woman's struggles
into a universally resonant art.Benjamin Moser is the New Books columnist of Harper's Magazine.
He was born in Houston in 1976 and currently lives in the Netherlands. He is a contributor to
the The New York Review of Books  and he has written for Conde Nast Traveler and Newsweek  as
well as many other publications.

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