Benjamin Moser

General editor of the new translations of Clarice Lispector’s complete works at New Directions, BENJAMIN MOSER is the author of Why This World: The Biography of Clarice Lispector, and Sontag: Her Life and Work, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His new book, The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters, will be published in October.

Benjamin Moser

General editor of the new translations of Clarice Lispector’s complete works at New Directions, BENJAMIN MOSER is the author of Why This World: The Biography of Clarice Lispector, and Sontag: Her Life and Work, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His new book, The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters, will be published in October.

Books by Benjamin Moser

  • A Breath of Life

    Clarice Lispector, Johnny Lorenz, Benjamin Moser

    E Book, 2012

    A mystical dialogue between a male author and his creation, this posthumous work has never before been translated, and is a book of particular beauty and strangeness.
  • Near to the Wild Heart

    Clarice Lispector, Alison Entrekin, Benjamin Moser

    E Book, 2012

    This new translation of Clarice Lispector's sensational first book tells the story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through an unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence.
  • Água Viva

    Clarice Lispector, Stefan Tobler, Benjamin Moser

    E Book, 2012

    Lispector at her most philosophically radical.
  • The Chandelier

    Clarice Lispector, Magdalena Edwards, Benjamin Moser

    E Book, 2019

    In paperback, Clarice Lispector’s explosive and surprising second novel
  • The Besieged City

    Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, Johnny Lorenz

    E Book, 2019

    Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel—the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals—is in English at last
  • Complete Stories

    Clarice Lispector, Katrina Dodson, Benjamin Moser

    E Book, 2018

    One of the most phenomenally acclaimed and successful books of recent years is now available as a paperback—with three just-discovered stories
  • An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

    Clarice Lispector, Stefan Tobler, Sheila Heti, Benjamin Moser

    E Book, 2022

    Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writer
  • The Hour of the Star: 100th Anniversary Edition

    Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, Paulo Gurgel Valente, Colm Tóibín

    E Book, 2020

    Clarice Lispector’s best-selling masterpiece—“her finest book” (The Nation)—now in a special hardcover edition to celebrate the centenary of her birth, with an illuminating new afterword by her son...
  • The Woman Who Killed the Fish

    Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser

    Hardback, 2022

    Four beguiling tales for children of all ages.

    A surprising new facet of Clarice Lispector’s genius

  • An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

    Clarice Lispector, Stefan Tobler, Sheila Heti, Benjamin Moser

    Paperback, 2022

    Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writer