#about lispector

[1920-1977]

She was, all the time, ruefully aware of the limitations that writing imposed on her. Part of her dark vision included a sad knowledge of the frailty of the very words and phrases she used, the necessary thinness of her own observations and her games with form.

Colm Tóibín on Clarice Lispector in his article “She Played Hard with Happiness”