Have a good friend recommend that I read Clarice Lispector. Probably to be entertained knowing my “aversion” to intellectual ideas and arguments being embedded in fiction. “Let’s throw this chum in the water and see what happens”, he must have thought. So, I read a couple of her novels and a handful of short stories. I didn’t howl, much to my friend’s disappointment. What did strike me, and I’m not quite sure why, was how much she came across to me as a kind of female Henry Miller. Maybe it was the sense that both (my opinion, natch) are probably best read, appreciated and obsessed over in your 20s and 30s. There’s an eccentric, bohemian, street intellectual brio to both. But to come around (finally) to my query: what’s happened to Miller’s rep? Faded? Dated? All that but due for a revival? Thoughts on Miller any and everyone?
by Allthatisthecase-