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Why This World

Author : Benjamin Moser
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141976004
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Why This World written by Benjamin Moser and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf," Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers, and now, after years of research on three continents, drawing on previously unknown manuscripts and dozens of interviews, Benjamin Moser demonstrates how Lispector's development as a writer was directly connected to the story of her turbulent life. Born in the nightmarish landscape of post-World War I Ukraine, Clarice became, virtually from adolescence, a person whose beauty, genius, and eccentricity intrigued Brazil. Why This World tells how this precocious girl, through long exile abroad and difficult personal struggles, matured into a great writer, and asserts, for the first time, the deep roots in the Jewish mystical tradition that make her the true heir to Kafka as well as the unlikely author of "perhaps the greatest spiritual autobiography of the twentieth century." From Chechelnik to Recife, from Naples and Bern to Washington and Rio de Janeiro, Why This World strips away the mythology surrounding this extraordinary figure and shows how Clarice Lispector transformed one woman's struggles into a universally resonant art. Benjamin Moser is the New Books columnist of Harper's Magazine. He was born in Houston in 1976 and currently lives in the Netherlands. He is a contributor to the The New York Review of Books, and he has written for Conde Nast Traveler and Newsweek, as well as many other publications.

Complete Stories

Author : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811227944
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Complete Stories written by Clarice Lispector and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most phenomenally acclaimed and successful books of recent years is now available as a paperback—with three just-discovered stories Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don’t know what to do with themselves— and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives—and hers—and ours.

Near to the Wild Heart

Author : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811220710
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Near to the Wild Heart written by Clarice Lispector and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new translation of Clarice Lispector's sensational first book tells the story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through an unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence. Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called “Hurricane Clarice”: a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: “He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart of life.” The book was an unprecedented sensation — the discovery of a genius. Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue frame the life of Joana, from her middle-class childhood through her unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence, when she proclaims: “I shall arise as strong and comely as a young colt.”

The Chandelier

Author : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141989505
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Chandelier written by Clarice Lispector and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarice Lispector's masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time 'She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold ... She would get a clear and tender material from which she could shape a world' Like the clay from which she sculpts figurines as a girl, Virginia is constantly shifting and changing. From her dreamlike childhood on Quiet Farm with her adored brother Daniel, through an adulthood where the past continues to pull her back and shape her, she moves through life, grasping for the truth of existence. Illuminating Virginia's progress through intense flashes of image, sensation and perception, The Chandelier, Lispector's landmark second novel, is a disorienting and exhilarating portrait of one woman's inner life. 'Utterly original and brilliant, haunting and disturbing' Colm Tóibín Translated by Benjamin Moser and Magdalena Edwards

A Breath of Life

Author : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811219623
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book A Breath of Life written by Clarice Lispector and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A mystical mediation on creation and death in which a man (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) infuses the "breath of life" into his creation [and] forms a dialogue between the god-like author and the speaking, breathing, dying creature herself: Angela Pralini"--P. [4] of cover.

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

Author : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811230678
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures written by Clarice Lispector and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writer Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only “to love and to be loved,” but also “to be worthy of life itself.” Published in 1968, An Apprenticeship is Clarice Lispector’s attempt to reinvent herself following the exhausting effort of her metaphysical masterpiece The Passion According to G. H. Here, in this unconventional love story, she explores the ways in which people try to bridge the gaps between them, and the result, unusual in her work, surprised many readers and became a bestseller. Some appreciated its accessibility; others denounced it as sexist or superficial. To both admirers and critics, the olympian Clarice gave a typically elliptical answer: “I humanized myself,” she said. “The book reflects that.”

The Besieged City

Author : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014198953X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Besieged City written by Clarice Lispector and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' Colm Tóibín 'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the loveliest way to see herself' Lucrécia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. She may have no inner life at all. As she morphs from small-town girl to worldly wife of a rich man, and her small home town surrenders to the forces of progress, Lucrécia seeks perfection: to be an object, serene, smooth, beyond the burden of words or even thought itself. A book that obsessed its author, The Besieged City is unlike any other work in Lispector's canon: a story of transformation, of what it means to see and to be seen.

The Passion According to G.H.

Author : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811220699
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Passion According to G.H. written by Clarice Lispector and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lispector’s most shocking novel. The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door—crushing the cockroach—and then watches it die. At the end of the novel, at the height of a spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most genuinely shocking scene in Brazilian literature… Lispector wrote that of all her works this novel was the one that “best corresponded to her demands as a writer.”

The Hour of the Star

Author : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811211901
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book The Hour of the Star written by Clarice Lispector and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece.

Água Viva

Author : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811219909
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Água Viva written by Clarice Lispector and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lispector at her most philosophically radical.

Agua Viva

Author : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816617821
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Agua Viva written by Clarice Lispector and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses life, time, beauty, experience, meaning, music, and art.

Soulstorm

Author : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811210911
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Soulstorm written by Clarice Lispector and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-none stories in Soulstorm were originally published in two separate volumes in 1974--A Via Crucis do Corpo (The Stations of the Body) and Onde Estivestes de Noite (Where You Were at Night)--and are now combined and sensitively translated into English by Alexis Levitan.

Selected Cronicas

Author : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811224953
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Selected Cronicas written by Clarice Lispector and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1996-11-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Clarice Lispector was a born writer....she writes with sensuous verve, bringing her earliest passions into adult life intact, along with a child's undiminished capacity for wonder."—The New York Times Book Review "In 1967, Brazil's leading newspaper asked the avant-garde writer Lispector to write a weekly column on any topic she wished. For almost seven years, Lispector showed Brazilian readers just how vast and passionate her interests were. This beautifully translated collection of selected columns, or crônicas, is just as immediately stimulating today and ably reinforces her reputation as one of Brazil's greatest writers. Indeed, these columns should establish her as being among the era's most brilliant essayists. She is masterful, even reminiscent of Montaigne, in her ability to spin the mundane events of life into moments of clarity that reveal greater truths."—Publishers Weekly

Sontag

Author : Benjamin Moser
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062896415
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Sontag written by Benjamin Moser and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Named one of the Best Books of the Year by: O Magazine, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Seattle Times The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud symbol of cosmopolitanism, Sontag left a legacy of writing on art and politics, feminism and homosexuality, celebrity and style, medicine and drugs, radicalism and Fascism and Freudianism and Communism and Americanism, that forms an indispensable key to modern culture. She was there when the Cuban Revolution began, and when the Berlin Wall came down; in Vietnam under American bombardment, in wartime Israel, in besieged Sarajevo. She was in New York when artists tried to resist the tug of money—and when many gave in. No writer negotiated as many worlds; no serious writer had as many glamorous lovers. Sontag tells these stories and examines the work upon which her reputation was based. It explores the agonizing insecurity behind the formidable public face: the broken relationships, the struggles with her sexuality, that animated—and undermined—her writing. And it shows her attempts to respond to the cruelties and absurdities of a country that had lost its way, and her conviction that fidelity to high culture was an activism of its own. Utilizing hundreds of interviews conducted from Maui to Stockholm and from London to Sarajevo—and featuring nearly one hundred images—Sontag is the first book based on the writer’s restricted archives, and on access to many people who have never before spoken about Sontag, including Annie Leibovitz. It is a definitive portrait—a great American novel in the form of a biography.

Women and Men

Author : Joseph McElroy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979312397
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Women and Men written by Joseph McElroy and published by . This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in childbirth and entered like a multiple dwelling in motion, Women and Men embraces and anatomizes the 1970s in New York - from experiments in the chaotic relations between the sexes to the flux of the city itself. Yet through an intricate overlay of scenes, voices, fact, and myth, this expanding fiction finds its way also across continents and into earlier and future times and indeed the Earth, to reveal connections between the most disparate lives and systems of feeling and power. At its breathing heart, it plots the fuguelike and fieldlike densities of late-twentieth-century life. McElroy rests a global vision on two people, apartment-house neighbors who never quite meet. Except, that is, in the population of others whose histories cross theirs believers and skeptics; lovers, friends, and hermits; children, parents, grandparents, avatars, and, apparently, angels. For Women and Men shows how the families through which we pass let one person's experience belong to that of many, so that we throw light on each other as if these kinships were refracted lives so real as to be reincarnate. A mirror of manners, the book is also a meditation on the languages, rich, ludicrous, exact, and also American, in which we try to grasp the world we're in. Along the kindred axes of separation and intimacy Women and Men extends the great line of twentieth-century innovative fiction.

Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady

Author : Clarice Lispector
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0241337615
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady written by Clarice Lispector and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently through the house' Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Chronicle of the Murdered House

Author : Lúcio Cardoso
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940953502
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Chronicle of the Murdered House written by Lúcio Cardoso and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, the novel relates the dissolution of a once proud patriarchal family now represented by Timoteo, a gay scion who wanders the ancestral mansion dressed in his mother's clothes. This downfall, peppered by stories of decadence, adultery, incest, and madness, is related through a variety of narrative devices, including letters, diaries, memoirs, statements, confessions, and accounts penned by the various characters.