Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

A new and passionate biography of one of Brazil's most important writers. '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. Now, 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.