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Lispector, Clarice; Moser, Benjamin; Edwards, Magdalena

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811223132 ISBN 13: 9780811223133

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018

Synopsis

Now, for the first time in English we have Clarice Lispector's second novel--a radical part of what made her a Brazilian legend

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Review:

One of the twentieth century's most mysterious writers.--Orhan Pamuk (01/22/2018)

Better than Borges.--Elizabeth Bishop (01/22/2018)

Utterly original and brilliant, haunting and disturbing.--Colm Tóibín (01/22/2018)

Virginia's memory of the chandelier as an adult is as strange and ambiguous as the rest of the moments in the novel, deeply introspective and without a clear meaning, but the energy and spiritual wonder of her descriptions make the cryptic writing all the more resonant and spiritually urgent for both her character and her reader.--Mike Broida"The Refugee Woman Who Shaped Brazilian Literature" (03/27/2018)

The revival of the hypnotic Clarice Lispector has been one of the true literary events of the 21st century.--Parul Sehgal (03/27/2018)

It's a shaggy stop-motion masterpiece, plotless and argument-less and obsessed with the nature of thought....Every page vibrates with feeling. It's not enough to say that Lispector bends language, or uses words in new ways. Plenty of modernists do that. No one else writes prose this rich.-- (04/05/2018)

A vulnerable and moving performance--with a heart-stopping payoff....an undeniable quantity of genius.-- (03/27/2018)

Lispector's signature brilliance lies in the minutely observed gradations of her characters' feelings and of their elusive, half-formed thoughts.-- (03/23/2018)

This is a haunting family fable, and will fascinate those seeking a glimpse at Lispector's genius in development.--The Chandelier (01/22/2018)

[L]yrical, sensual, philosophical...gorgeous, unsettling prose...-- (01/22/2018)

About the Author:

Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called "astounding" (Rachel Kushner), "a penetrating genius" (Donna Seaman, Booklist), and "a truly remarkable writer" (Jonathan Franzen). "Her images dazzle even when her meaning is most obscure," noted the Times Literary Supplement, "and when she is writing of what she despises, she is lucidity itself."

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0811223132
• ISBN 13: 9780811223133
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304