To essay means to try, to endeavour, to attempt. It implies risk and failure. It is also the only way to find out whether something is possible. These essays are a sort of written equivalent of hunting and gathering, of wandering with intent.
They are the product of my own wandering among the conundrums and contradictions of the cross-cultural world I’ve chosen to inhabit, and of my intent to understand and honour it.
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Clarice Lispector Q & A
In The New Yorker Benjamin Moser presents: "The longest and most wide-ranging interview that the great Brazilian author gave, here translated and published for the first time", in A Lost Interview with Clarice Lispector.
Among her responses:
COLASANTI: Speaking of translation, that’s another one of those parallel activities of yours. You translate, quite a lot.
LISPECTOR: I discovered a way to make it less annoying. What I do is I never read the book before I translate it. I go along sentence by sentence, because that way you’re carried along by curiosity to know what happens next, and time passes. Whereas if you’ve already read it it’s a chore. It scares me when I see it that way, three hundred pages to go.