The Woman Who Killed the Fish by Clarice Lispector

Why This World sucks you … into its subject’s strange vortex. Moser, a translator and a book critic for Harper’s Magazine, begins to unpeel the layers of her complicated life.

“This is rich biographical material that gets only richer as Mr. Reviews of the book, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, were overwhelmingly positive. His energetically researched, finely argued biography will surely win Lispector the English-language readership she deserves.' 'Benjamin Moser’s lively, ardent and intellectually rigorous biography promises to redress this wrong. 'Despite a cult following of artists and scholars, Lispector has yet to gain her rightful place in the literary canon,' wrote Fernanda Eberstadt in The New York Times Book Review. Moser’s first book, Why This World, was published in 2009, and was widely recognized as introducing the Brazilian writer, up until that point largely unknown in the United States, to an international public. He is the brother of author and progressive political activist Laura Moser.Ĭareer and work Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector He came to Brown with the intention of studying Chinese, but soon switched to Portuguese, a choice that would have great influence on his subsequent work. John's School and graduated from Brown University with a degree in history.

He received the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Susan Sontag, titled Sontag: Her Life and Work.īorn in Houston, Moser attended St. Benjamin Moser (born September 14, 1976) is an American writer and translator.

The Woman Who Killed the Fish by Clarice Lispector