Alejandro Chacoff

Alejandro Chacoff is the author of Apátridas, a novel, and the Literary Editor of piauí magazine. He is based in Rio de Janeiro. (April 2023)

Lispector, Cronista

“The crônica demands a certain capacity for boredom, for being open to fleeting, small scenes of the quotidian.”

March 18, 2023

The Unbearable Weight of Levity

In Clarice Lispector’s newspaper columns and crônicas, she seems sensorially overcharged by the quotidian, needing only the tiniest slice of existence to feed her writing.

Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas

by Clarice Lispector, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson

April 6, 2023 issue

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