Read the Critical Sources for Clarice Lispector and the Prologue "Glamour and Grammar" by Benjamin Moser
- Contrast your own interpretation of the short stories with the critical sources and propose aspects that you consider significant regarding the narrator-character perspective in each story.
- Lispectors obsessively questions every instance of her reality, from revealing how our perception is mediated by our personal circumstances and how every human action reveals our transient and transcendent nature.
- Lispector was from an immigrant Jewish Ukrainian family that struggled to survive in provincial Brazil. She started to work as a journalist and chronicler very early on in her life.
- Read Clarice Lispector's Chronicles in the Unit 7 folder (above this journal). Contrast her journalistic writing with the style of her fiction writing.