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Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
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This is the publication of Clarice Lispector's collected stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose ...Show more
THE HOUR OF THE STAR by Clarice Lispector
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Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabea, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monro ...Show more
The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector
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Described by Clarice Lispector as 'the best one', this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical, enigmatic masterpiece 'All I've got is hunger. And that instable way of grasping an apple in the dark-without letting it fall' Martim, believing that he has committed a murde ...Show more
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector; Benjamin Moser (Editor); Johnny Lorenz (Translator)
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Perhaps written in flight from the "shipwreck of introspection," it is a book unlike any other in the Lispector canon, a novel about simplyseeing the external world. Its heroine Lucr cia is utterly mute and unreflective. She may have no inner life. Moreover, the plot itself is utterly unlike any other L ...Show more
Too Much of Life - Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator); Robin Patterson (Translator)
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A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life 'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?' Between 1967 and 1977, the internationally reno ...Show more
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