Don’t try to make yourself into somebody perfect
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A letter of sisterly advice from Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector by Maureen Bisilliat in August 1969. Instituto Moreira Salles. Born in what is now Ukraine in 1920, acclaimed novelist Clarice Lispector was still a child when she and her family emigrated to Brazil as a result of the Russian Civil War. She lived there for the majority of her life. In 1948, she wrote the following letter to one of her two sisters, Tania, and offered some advice. Berne, 6th January 1948 My little flower, I received your letter. How happy I was, my little sister, with certain sentences you wrote. But please don’t say: I discovered there is still a large…
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