Books by Clarice Lispector

Et hastigt glimt af den unge pige Macabéa på gaden i Rio de Janeiro er nok til at forfatteren Rodrigo S.M. bliver besat. Han kredser om hendes skikkelse og historie og forsøger at indfange og fortælle om hendes usynlige liv i den store millionby.Med sin helt egen dragende skønhed, poesi og humor fortælles Macabéas historie – og historien om dens fortæller, som forsøger at berette hendes liv.Stjernens time udkommer i Gyldendals Skala-serie for genopdagede mesterværker fra det 20. århundrede. 

Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved.

Despite its apparent spontaneity, this is a work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction.

G H, a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. There she sees a cockroach - black, dusty, prehistoric - crawling out of the wardrobe and, panicking, slams the door on it.

As Joana, endlessly mutable, moves through different emotional states, different inner lives and different truths, this impressionistic, dreamlike and fiercely intelligent novel asks if any of us ever really know who we are. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown.

En støvet, sort, næsten forhistorisk kakerlak – det er hvad skulptøren G.H. møder, da hun åbner sin stuepiges garderobeskab. Hun smækker straks skabsdøren i – men en uimodståelig fascination er vakt. Mødet med kakerlakken åbner døren til hidtil lukkede rum, til en spirituel krise, og stiller spørgsmålstegn ved selve G.H.s identitet og placering i universet."Passionen ifølge G.H." er en filosofisk betragtning over livet. Det er en desorienteret og forvirret kvindes fascinerende tilbageblik på sit liv og sin placering i verden. En udforskning af selverkendelsen, men også af ordenes og sprogets betydning og udfordringen i at møde andre mennesker.Nyoversat af Tine Lykke Prado og med forord af Eva Tind.

Four beguiling tales for children of all ages. A surprising new facet of Clarice Lispector's genius

Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of the First World War and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually Brazil. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart, in 1943 when she was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Gra¿Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.

Features stories ranging from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with themselves.