Thread 24735669

I think it’s very sad to see the status which Clarice has gained among foreigners (Americans, that is) as the 'best Brazilian novelist' of the past century. She is not. No one in Brazil thinks so, and it's been only in recent years that foreigners have elevated her work to a status which it doesn't really deserve - they deny it to Os Sertões and Claro Enigma -, mainly because of political reasons and because it’s easy to turn her into a feminist icon. They couldn't do that with the old, Catholic Cecília, a great poet, and much less with Adélia Prado, so they had to choose Clarice instead. And it doesn’t stop with her: now Brazilians are doing the very same thing with that laughably untalented carioca junkie from the 80's whose name does not deserved to be mentioned. Very soon she's going to be translated and looked at as 'the best Brazilian poet of the second half of the 20th-century' (after Chico Buarque, of course). It's ridiculous. And they’ve been doing the same to Hilda Hilst too, although, like Clarice, she at least had some talent. What's next? Gregório Duvivier? Somebody kill me before it happens!

I just think shes hot

cumgenius incoming

Generally countries import the works which have use to them and do not require an intimate knowledge of the country they come from, which is reasonable if you want anyone outside your country to read your literature.

>>24735669 (OP)
I think she's great.

>>24735669 (OP)
>the 'best Brazilian novelist' of the past century
Look at her early life to understand why american media pushed her to that status.

I love her body of work

>>24735669 (OP)
Clarice is incredible sorry Brazilian anon

>>24735782
>he did not click translate page
that's Alice Denham but I would still breed her fertile unprotected pussy and make her my hucow fuckslave

A female author who is attractive and has cultured airs is going to become huge, especially if she has even a smidge of feminism in her books, because female readers aspirationally project themselves onto her. Lispector is a prime example as are Joan Didion, Susan Sontag, and Sylvia Plath.

>>24735669 (OP)
shooting your own foot, primate?

Give me your top 3 20th century Brazilian novels.

def better than pizarnik

>>24735669 (OP)
She's not a good "novelist" in a traditional sense, but her use of language is fantastic. She fits right in with modernists and surrealist poets (I read her Agua Viva right after Rimbaud and found the same kind of enjoyment)

>>24735683
The photo you're thinking of is of a playboy model.

sex sells

for monkeys

>>24735853
its pasta anon kek

REJEITE A CARCUNDIA IDEALISTA; ACEITE A BOSSA CÓSMICA.

MAS, A SÉRIO, A FAMA DE LISPECTOR, ALÉM DE MOTIVOS IDEOLÓGICOS ULTERIORES, É MUITO MERECIDA.

>>24735669 (OP)
Faye Dunaway?

>>24735669 (OP)
>Brazilian novelist

>they deny it to Os Sertões
This is non-fiction;
GREAT non-fiction, but still.

>Claro Enigma
This is poetry.

>They couldn't do that with the old, Catholic Cecília
Post some of your favourites by her, anon.


>now Brazilians are doing the very same thing with that laughably untalented carioca junkie from the 80's whose name does not deserved to be mentioned.
Who? Ana Cristina César?

>Very soon she's going to be translated and looked at as 'the best Brazilian poet of the second half of the 20th-century'
But there's Leminski too. By the way, what's your opinion on him?

>>24735860
>Give me your top 3 20th century Brazilian novels.
Seconding it.

>>24735867
I wouldn't say she's a favourite. But she's a true prose stylist, and should be kept as a reference in this sense.
Plus she isn't as easy as the quotes often misatributed to her make it seem.

To finish, I will read only one more book by her (that one they say it's her best).