Right in those first days you could feel that there was a man on the ranch. And you could also guess that the person in charge was a woman: since despite the threat of drought and the fundamental n…
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Clarice Lispector was born in 1920 to a Jewish family in the Ukraine. To escape the pogroms, her family emigrated to Brazil when she was a baby. She spent her childhood in the northeast city of Recife. Her first novel, Near to the Wild Heart, was published when she was 23 years old. She immediately gained a reputation and over time became one of Brazil’s most acclaimed writers. She published novels, stories, and journalism until her death in 1977. This story was first published in Brazil in 1971, in the collection Felicidade Clandestina. This marks its first publication in English. Copyright ©2013 by New Directions Publishing and the Heirs of Clarice Lispector, from the forthcoming Collected Stories. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. 
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The story of a woman eating a cockroach—it may not sound like the most inspiring thing in the world, but this book saved my life. I worked for a corporation,
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Scott Esposito is a superb, thoughtful essayist and critic of a tremendous range of contemporary literary fiction. He's the co-author of The End of Oulipo? (with Lauren Elkin) and the author of The Surrender and The Doubles. He's a frequent contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Lovely intro by Jenny McPhee, novelist: In my pantheon of favorite writers, Clarice Lispector is right there at the top. She's a writer, like Muriel Spark or Thomas Bernhard, who always make me ask when reading their work: Is this allowed? Sometimes her prose has such power I am made to wonder if I have the strength and stability to keep reading. Championed by Elizabeth Bishop…
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