Lispector Moment

The Hour of Clarice Lispector

"She guarded me, in her space, day after day, through countless summer nights."
On October 12, 1978, almost a year after Clarice Lispector's death, the French writer Hélène Cixous, on the recommendation of a student, read Lispector's novel for the first time. She quickly became one of the most loyal European readers of the Brazilian writer, whose background and experiences were similar to her own. Ten years later, she published the small book *The Hour of Clarice Lispector*, a work of both creation and critique, dedicated to Lispector, whom she always revered but would never meet.
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In France, writers like Hélène Cixous had already popularized Lispector's work as early as the 1990s, while in the United States, she did not become widely known until Benjamin Moser published her biography in 2012. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
Hélène never met Clarice Lispector in person, but from a very young age, even without knowing what she was waiting for, she had always been waiting for this encounter. She said, "At that time I felt I had become a writer completely, but I always felt I lacked another woman." (The Paris Review)
Feminist theorist Hélène Cixous championed Lispector's work in the 1970s as a paradigm of "écriture féminine," arguing that her writing was permeated by "a powerful anxiety." (The Guardian)

2025-09-01

北京联合出版公司

New Thinking

168

9787559685315