Short Bio
Laís Maria Rosal Botler is a Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She has completed her PhD in Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with a dissertation on “Places and non-places in Clarice Lispector’s writings. She led the “Identity and Belonging” study group at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her current research focuses on women's writings and identity negotiation by authors from Brazil and Argentina.
Project for the Network
The objective of Lais’s project to the network is to analyze Clarice Lispector’s correspondence (both active and passive) written in the period that she lived in Italy (1944-1946), as the letters evidence which themes were of greatest concern to the writer in the period. The analysis will consider excerpts of the letters as chronicles, which will be analyzed in parallel to the chronicles Lispector wrote years later in this period in Italy. Moreover, another aspect that will be explored in the correspondence –both active and passive– is Lispector’s relationship with Italian culture and Italian writers and if and how these relationships contributed to the circulation of Lispector’s and other Brazilian writers’ works in Italy.