Each day leading up to the March 11 announcement of the 2009 NBCC award winners, Critical Mass highlights one of the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Rigoberto González discusses Benjamin Moser's Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector (Oxford University Press).
Called simply Clarice by those who adored and admired her in Brazil and throughout Latin America, Lispector worked hard to fuel her legendary status up until the year of her death from cervical cancer in 1977. No one knew better than she about the benefits of constructing an elusive and mysterious persona
