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“... Clarice Lispector​ was born in 1920 to Jewish parents, in the small town of Chechelnik in Ukraine. It was hoped that the pregnancy would cure her mother’s syphilis, contracted when she was raped by a gang of Russian soldiers. The attempted cure failed. In 1921, the family made their way to Romania and eventually to Brazil ...”

“... You killed my character!’ Clarice Lispector said angrily to the nurse who stopped her from marching out of hospital the day before she died of ovarian cancer, aged 57, in 1977. The Brazilian writer and her characters had always been close, and it seems that self and creation had finally merged in her mind ...”

“... yet ... Poland for Tuohy is both a distinct place on a map and a gloomy possibility of the spirit. Clarice Lispector’s places are Brazilian, although she herself was born in the Ukraine – in 1925 according to the blurb of one of these books, in 1924 according to the other. They agree that she died in 1977. She went to school and university in Rio, and ...”

“... named Untitled (‘The tiniest piece of mirror is always the whole mirror.’) after a sentence in Clarice Lispector – are ten shallow cylinders of solid glass in various colours: black, white, mauve, a swatch of delicate blues. You wander among these abstract monuments as if between ornamental ponds; each one is a mirror and a vacuum, a solid presence ...”

“... she is variously Toni Morrison, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Cindy Sherman, Susan Howe, Richard Hell, Clarice Lispector, Bob Dylan and Edie Sedgwick. (Not an exhaustive list – and if it doesn’t cohere, well, the Zelig-like career of an artist like X isn’t meant to.) Not all the references to currently working writers in the footnotes seem worthwhile ...”

“... love with her. When the couple visited Bishop in Brazil in 1962, Lowell had a one-night stand with Clarice Lispector; Hardwick flew home early. There was his infatuation with Ann Adden, a college student who was doing research at the hospital in which he was institutionalised in 1957; and Sandra Hochman, a Jewish woman for whom he threw a surprise ...”