Lucian Berlin (1936-2004), hailed by critics as “America’s best kept secret,” focused exclusively to short stories. She was not particularly well known while alive, but her literary reputation catapulted eleven years after her death. In 1994 she began to work as a visiting professor at Colorado University in Boulder and soon she was promoted to associate professor. Her ill health forced her to move to Southern California in 2001 to be close to her sons. She died in 2004, at sixty-eight years, in Marina del Rey.
Lucian Berlin (1936-2004), hailed by critics as “America’s best kept secret,” focused exclusively to short stories. She was not particularly well known while alive, but her literary reputation catapulted eleven years after her death. In 1994 she began to work as a visiting professor at Colorado University in Boulder and soon she was promoted to associate professor. Her ill health forced her to move to Southern California in 2001 to be close to her sons. She died in 2004, at sixty-eight years, in Marina del Rey.
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The collection of selected stories, “A Manual for Cleaning Women” (first edition in Greek in 2018), introduced to the international public ten years after her death, a great author who had been unjustly forgotten. “Evening in Paradise,” Lucia Berlin’s second collection, confirms her place in the pantheon of American letters, equal to that of Raymond Carver and Alice Munro.
Through her short stories a world is emerging in an unstoppable movement, painful and at the same time hedonic. Berlin makes wonders using as material the insignificant things of everyday life.
