WRITING BY EAR - Clarice Lispector and the Aural Novel

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"In this book, Marília Librandi analyzes the juncture of the sonorous aspect of speech and the silent nature of reading, looking at what is produced between sounds and silence. By means of a wide theoretical discussion, as well as a close reading of Lispector in her relationship to the acts of writing and listening, Librandi avoids any false opposition between silence and sounds, and investigates that which she aptly calls the ‘conjugation of these two moments – their friction.’"

Pedro Meira Monteiro, Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University

"While contributing to our understanding of Clarice Lispector, Writing by Ear offers a rational and compelling argument about how and why she is being received so enthusiastically by a new generation of readers, in Brazil and across the globe."

Earl E. Fitz, Professor of Portuguese, Spanish, and Comparative Literature, Vanderbilt University