Lit in Translation

Too Much of Life: Complete Chronicles

Todas as crônicas

Clarice Lispector (born 1920)

Translated by Robin Patterson, Margaret Jull Costa

English editions

In English

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This volume brings together, for the first time in one book, everything the author wrote as a columnist, including some 120 pieces never before collected. Writing for the Jornal do Brasil from 1967 to 1973, she broke with the single running column, filling the page with short texts, and turned the space into something close to an intimate diary: her sons, her home and maids, Rio, her past and her travels, friends, animals and art, along with sometimes sharp replies to readers' letters and passages from the novel she was writing. Its three parts cover those columns, her work for other papers and scattered pieces.

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About the book

Form
Nonfiction
Set in
Brazil
First published
2018 by Rocco
Author's age
98 when first published
ISBN

9788532531216 (original)

9780241597576 (Penguin Classics, United Kingdom)

9780811226790 (New Directions, United States)

9780241597583 (Penguin Classics, United Kingdom)