by Marcus Deminco (Author) WHY THE MOST important Brazilian woman writer in the 20th century, considered the greatest Jewish writer since Franz Kafka, was known as 'The Great Witch of Brazilian Literature?' What sort of bond did Clarice Lispector establish with the magical universe of sorcery? Why her friend Otto Lara Resende always warned her readers to be careful with her texts, saying they were not only literature but witchcraft? "Number 7 was my secret, kabbalistic number. There are 7 keys with which all the songs that exists or that will exist can be composed ...] I assure you that 1978 will be the real kabbalistic year. Therefore, I commanded to polish the instants of time, to shine the stars, to wash the moon with milk, and the sun with liquid gold.