The Apple in the Dark - Hardcover

Clarice Lispector; Benjamin Moser

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1906598452 ISBN 13: 9781906598457

Publisher: Haus Publishing Limited, 2009

Synopsis

Martin is convinced that he has murdered his wife. In a delirium of guilt and grief, he wanders through a forest until he comes across an isolated farm run by Vitória an indomitable spinster who is afraid to live , and her flighty, obsessive cousin Ermelinda, who is terrified of death. As Martin works on Vitória s land he is both haunted and comforted by memories of his wife and son. In the intense heat of the Brazilian summer, drought threatens both the farm and its inhabitants, and these three very different but equally domineering characters provoke each other into a realisation of their individual psychological isolation. Lispector s modernist, stream-of-consciousness style is comparable with Woolf, Lispector distinguishes herself with an abundance of wild irony and wicked humour, as well as an intensely moving human sympathy. The Apple in the Dark marks the start of a long-overdue rediscovery of this extraordinary writer who continues to be cited as a great inspiration by authors today.

About this title

About the Author

Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) was one of Brazil's most acclaimed novelists. Her translator Gregory Rabassa recalled being 'flabbergasted to meet that rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf,' and Lispector is without doubt a natural and accomplished successor to Woolf, with her modernist, stream-of-consciousness style of writing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Haus Publishing Limited
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906598452
• ISBN 13: 9781906598457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400