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Chronicle of the Murdered House

Posted on 19 July 2017 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

It takes a gay writer to bring a Catholic country back to its sense of love and sin, good and evil, and moral justice. The road is very long, but the actual miles travelled are very few, as almost all…

A prickly translation: The hour of the star

Posted on 12 October 2016 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 1 Comment

“I write because I’m desperate and I’m tired, I can no longer bear the routine of being me and if not for the always novelty that is writing, I would die symbolically every day. But I am prepared to slip…

Clarice: Kafkaesque witchcraft from Rio

Posted on 16 August 2016 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — 2 Comments

“Be careful with Clarice,” the writer’s friend warned a reader. “It’s not literature, it’s witchcraft.” Clarice Lispector was born not so very far away from Kafka and Schulz, and you can tell. That particular magically impossible way of weaving a…