Learning to live - by Clarice Lispector

Even though she stated that she would never write her autobiography, Clarice produced several confessional texts during the period in which she collaborated with Jornal do Brasil, between August 1967 and December 1973, as highlighted by her son and curator of her literary legacy, Paulo Gurgel Valente, in the statement he gave to the Moreira Salles Institute in 2014, easily accessible on the IMS website or through YouTube. It was from this set of chronicles that I put together Learning to Live as a kind of "involuntary autobiography" of Clarice, from her early childhood in Recife in the 1920s, to her final years in the Leme beach refuge, in the 1970s.

— PEDRO VASQUEZ, organizer of the work

Clarice refused all labels and placement in schools or literary systems. She always sought universality, exploring her own interior, producing literature of undeniable excellence and inimitable style, establishing herself as one of the greatest writers in the Portuguese language of all time.

"Sphinx, sorceress, sacred monster. The rebirth of the fascinating Clarice Lispector has been one of the true literary events of the 21st century. No one sounds like Clarice. No one thinks like her. Not only does she seem endowed with more senses than the known five, but it also bends the syntax and punctuation to its will. It turns the dictionary upside down, loosening all the words from their definitions, scattering them back as it pleases, and doesn't the language look better?" —THE NEW YORK TIMES