Onde estivestes de noite clarice lispector biography

Clarice Lispector's later fiction defies most efforts to classify or interpret it by traditional standards.

Beyond the consensus on her difficult style, few readers speculate on what Alexis Levitin has called Lispector's "artistic-spiritual stance." The intensity of the voice in the stories translated by Levitin in Soulstrom (1989) suggests that such a stance drives these multigeneric experimental pieces, not all of which can properly be called fiction.

Each clue that would lead to a general tone or mood or theme undoes itself in the motion of the prose.

"Where You Were at Night" ("Onde estivestes de noite"), the title story of Lispector's 1974 collection, creates a night world that resembles a photographic negative of day and of life itself.

An androgynous being, alternately the "She-he" and the "He-she," summons a group of unnamed humans to its mountain dwelling. There, in a world beyond time and li