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Learning to Live is a selection from the Clarice Lispector chronicles published in the Jornal do Brasil between September 1967 and December 1973. The Clarice from Learning to Live is the housewife who faces domestic problems: the family budget, the tureen to be returned, the chronic dumbness of the telephone, the delicate relationship between maid-servant or the education of children. Two and a half decades after the publication of her first book, when she already appeared in encyclopedias as one of the great names in world literature, she does not try to be "literary" or interesting in these texts that she writes, as she herself states, " a flies machine "for the Jornal do Brasil. For many, the discovery of this Clarice will be a pleasant novelty, as amazing a pleasure as it is to feel the free and daring way in which Clarice faced the task of writing weekly for the newspaper.
