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There is a Brazilian literature B.C. (before Clarice) and another A.C. (after Clarice).
A Brazilian icon, renowned for her unique writing style, her great personal beauty and her eccentric personality, Clarice Lispector is one of the most outstanding Brazilian prose writers of the 20th century.
The A Hora do Brasil Foundation takes the opportunity of the publication of Clarice's new biography WHY THIS WORLD written by Benjamin Moser to bring this great writer to the spotlight, introducing her work to the Dutch audience and giving new input for those who already know her novels.

The event also offers a premiere of the new film IN FULL ALL about Clarice, a mix of documentary and fiction, directed by her niece Nicole Algranti. It presents Clarice's interviews with Brazilian personalities such as Oscar Niemeyer, Nelson Rodrigues, Jorge Amado, Ferreira Gullar and Ruben Fonseca, among others, and it is acted by Araci Balabanian, Letícia Spiller, Betty Goulart, Silvia Buarque, Louise Cardoso and other Brazilian actresses, as a multifaceted Clarice Lispector.

PROGRAM

15:00 Introduction by Julia Abreu de Souza (A Hora do Brasil Foundation)
15:05 WHY THIS WORLD - A BIOGRAPHY OF CLARICE LISPECTOR
Lecture by the author, Benjamin Moser (a New Books columnist for Harper's and a regular contributor for the New York Review of Books)
15:35 Questions & Answers
15:50 FORGIVING GOD
Text reading by Anat Geiger (moving arts performer and co-founder of the theater company VanGeigerMen)
16:00 QUE MISTERIO TEM CLARICE
Song by Caetano Veloso performed by Brancka (voice) and Ferial Karamat Ali (keyboard)
16:10 Break
16:20 DE CORPO INTEIRO - ENTREVISTAS (IN FULL ALL)
Film by Nicole Algranti, based on interviews of Brazilian personalities conducted by Clarice Lispector during the 60's and 70's. (Portugues spoken, English subtitles)
17:20 Cocktail

Come and discover this intense and brilliant writer who does not cease intriguing everyone of us who knows her!

More info: www.ahoradobrasil.nl