​A night to celebrate Clarice Lispector and the luminous clarity she still offers us in these restless times.  

Toy pianist and performer Késia Decoté presents works composed by the Portuguese composer Sara Carvalho, inspired by Clarice Lispector’s Near to the Wild Heart (Perto do coração selvagem).

This mini-concert  features original compositions for piano toy – an instrument whose playful, almost childlike timbre at first disarms, only to reveal an undercurrent of something sharper, fragile, unsettling. Its delicate, uncanny resonance forms a perfect counterpoint to Clarice’s universe.

Threaded through the music, artist Roseane dos Reis will read selected texts by Clarice Lispector in Portuguese, English, and Norwegian, weaving a dialogue across languages – a bridge of voices, countries, and sensibilities.

Clarice Lispector was one of the most singular writers in the Portuguese  language – a brilliant, unsettling presence who, despite her importance, remained relatively unknown to much of the European public for decades. Born in 1920 in Ukraine and raised in Brazil, she became a  central figure of Latin American literature from the 1940s to the 1970s. Yet her international recognition has blossomed only in recent years, as new translations and critical studies have revealed the power and  urgency of her voice to readers across Europe. She wrote as if crossing a cracked mirror: her prose is introspective, feverish, made of silences and sudden revelations.

Her texts invite us into what is intimate, strange, and profoundly human – exploring identity, existence, subjectivity, and the mysterious trembling of everyday life. This timelessness is precisely what makes her rediscovery so vital today: her writing speaks with a transnational resonance that  transcends borders.

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Foto: Kristin Aafløy / Antonio Martins Neto