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Ferreira, Teresa Cristina Montero. Eu Sou Uma Pergunta: Uma Biografia de Clarice Lispector. Rio de Janeiro: 1999.

Gotlib, Nádia Battella. Clarice: Uma Vida Que Se Conta. São Paulo: 1995.

Varin, Claire. Clarice Lispector: Rencontres Brésiliennes. Quebec: 1987.

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Cixous, Hélène. Reading With Clarice Lispector. Minneapolis: 1990.

By the scholar who promoted “écriture feminine,” this volume contains a series of texts selected from Cixous’s seminars on Lispector given at the Université de Paris at Saint Denis and the Université de Philosophie between 1980 and 1985. These demonstrate Lispector’s influence on the critic’s development and center upon debates on and questioning of the rational Cartesian subject vis-à-vis the female experience.

Fitz, Earl E. Clarice Lispector. Boston: 1985.

As one of the volumes of the Twayne’s World Authors Series on Latin American Literature, this text is a useful introduction to Clarice Lispector for students as well as scholars. With a concise “Selected Bibliography” of primary and secondary sources, this study also contains biographical background, Lispector’s place in Brazilian Literature, her narrative techniques, and analyses of her major novels and short story collections.

Marting, Diane E., ed. Clarice Lispector: a Bio-Bibliography. Westport, Connecticut: 1993.

A comprehensive critical work containing a concise biography, a bibliography of the author’s works, individual analytical chapters devoted to each work of fiction with an annotated bibliography for each original title, translations, and critical studies. An important reference work for readers and scholars interested in Lispector’s writing.

Peixoto, Marta. Passionate Fictions: Gender, Narrative, and Violence in Clarice Lispector. Minneapolis: 1994.

As a contribution to feminist scholarship on Clarice Lispector, this critical study is a well-written treatment on gender, female power, textual violence, and narrative in several of Lispector’s most well-known works—Near to the Wild Heart, Family Ties, The Stream of Life, The Stations of the Body, and the Hour of the Star. An incisive critical work that manifests a clear and accessibly-theoretical approach to Lispector’s prose.

Vieira, Nelson H. “Clarice Lispector: A Jewish Impulse and a Prophecy of Difference.” In Vieira, Nelson H. Jewish Voices in Brazilian Literature. Gainesville, Florida: 1995, 100–150.

A chapter on CL’s innovations in literature and how these relate to her Jewish heritage. Containing biographical about her Jewish experience and critical views about her major novels and stories, this study focuses upon the Jewish motifs in her writing as well as on her gifts as a literary prophet who signaled insights into human consciousness and the relationship between language and existence.

Vieira, Nelson H.. “Clarice Lispector’s Jewish Universe: Passion in Search of Narrative Identity.” In Agosín, Marjorie, ed. Passion, Memory and Identity: Twentieth-Century Latin American Jewish Women Writers. Albuquerque: 1999, 85–113.

This article deals directly with Jewish hermeneutics in relation to Lispector’s works, specifically, the novel, The Passion According to GH. The article also contains biographical data about the Jewish context of her life and family. Also explored are the spiritual and the linguistic bases of her writing.