This circular writing practice, creating as it did a "slippery dialectic of disguises and disclosure," served, calculated or not, to mark even her most seemingly "personal" writing with a deep sense of open-endedness in relation to questions of (who) the authorial self (is). So, for example, Anna Klobucka's "Clarice Lispector by Clarice Lispector" examines Lispector's habit of recirculating her writing from her journalism-her crônicas-to her works of fiction and back again. In spite of a few uneven pieces, I found this volume particularly valuable, especially because at least four of its best pieces (and other essays besides) look first to connections between Lispector's journalism, her self-representations, and her fiction, and second to the ways that reading her journalism alongside her fiction deepens our understanding of and appreciation for the strategies of "undecidability" she deployed. This collection is organized into three areas which reflect the more coherent, and to my mind more interesting, critiques of Lispector's work since the 1980s: Part I includes essays on "Autobiography and Identity," Part II on "Gender, Class, Race, and Nation," and part III on "Critical Reception." The Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector's (1920- 1977) work-which, as this collection's editors put it, "changed the course of Brazilian literature forever" (1)-has undergone several distinct moments of critical reception and interpretation.
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