text: One novel by this author abruptly ends with a colon as the philosophy teacher Ulisses is about to speak.
full_question: One novel by this author abruptly ends with a colon as the philosophy teacher Ulisses is about to speak. In another novel by this author, a man shows off his strength to a woman by lifting her over his head with one hand, but then drops her into the mud. That novel by this author centers on a woman who lives on a diet of hot dogs and Coca-Cola and dies just after visiting the fortune teller Madame Carlota when she is hit by a yellow Mercedes. In a short story by this author, the explorer Marcel Pretre writes a newspaper article about a pregnant Likouala woman who is forty-five centimeters tall. This author of "The Smallest Woman in the World" wrote a novel whose title character has an existential crisis in the abandoned room of her maid Janair after slamming the wardrobe door on a cockroach, which she then eats. For 10 points, name this Brazilian author of The Hour of the Star and The Passion According to G.H.
first_sentence: One novel by this author abruptly ends with a colon as the philosophy teacher Ulisses is about to speak.
raw_answer: Clarice Lispector