![]() “Her images dazzle even when her meaning is most obscure, and when she is writing of what she despises she is lucidity itself.” A former books columnist at Harper’s Magazine and The New York Times Book Review, his latest book, Sontag: Her Life and Work, is published by Ecco Press. ![]() For promoting her work around the world, the Brazilian government awarded him the first State Prize in Cultural Diplomacy. ![]() At New Directions, he edits the new translation of Clarice Lispector's work, of which The Besieged City is the eighth volume. “Her images dazzle even when her meaning is most obscure,” noted the Times Literary Supplement, “and when she is writing of what she despises, she is lucidity itself.”Īlison Entrekin has translated a number of works by Brazilian and Portuguese authors into English, including City of God by Paulo Lins and Budapest by Chico Buarque.īenjamin Moser is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, a finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle award. Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called “astounding” (Rachel Kushner), “a penetrating genius” (Donna Seaman, Booklist), and “a truly remarkable writer” (Jonathan Franzen). ![]()
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