Clarice Lispector, born Haia Lispector (Chechelnyk, December 10, 1920 – Rio de Janeiro, December 9, 1977), was a Brazilian writer, born in the Ukraine. An introspective writer, she sought to express, through her texts, the hardships and contradictions of beings. Her works are characterized by the exacerbation of the interior moment and intense rupture of the factual plot, to the point of crisis of subjectivity itself.
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