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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,...
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...
One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Books by Women G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. There she sees a cockroach - black, dusty, prehistoric -...
A Breath of Life is Clarice Lispector's final novel, 'written in agony', which she did not live to see published. Sensual and mysterious, it is a mystical dialogue between a god-like author and the creation he breathes life into: the speaking, shifting, indefinable...
Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rodrigo S.M., who tries...
The publication of Clarice Lispector's Complete 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...
In Água Viva Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in their emotional power and have been a huge influence on many artists and...
Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'. It tells the story of Joana, from her wild, creative childhood, as the 'little egg' who writes...
'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...
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...
'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...
G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. There she sees a cockroach - black, dusty, prehistoric - crawling out of the wardrobe and, panicking,...
Dans ce roman de 1973, Clarice Lispector cherche à « capturer le présent » et ajoute ainsi à son expérience individuelle une dimension profondément universelle. Ses méditations sur des sujets personnels mais aussi sur le monde qui l’entoure – odeurs, temps, sommeil –...
Des nouvelles de Clarice Lispector lues par une des plus célèbres actrices brésiliennes contemporaines. Dans ces treize nouvelles, Clarice Lispector peint avec une précision remarquable des portraits de femmes toutes différentes les unes des autres. Une jeune fille...
Rappelant les légendes traditionnelles et les contes initiatiques, les cinq histoires de ce recueil mêlent le monde de l’enfance aux destins d’animaux. Ces derniers se voient pris dans un tourbillon d’événements aussi anodins que mystérieux, inspirés de la vie...
« Parce qu’au début et au milieu je vais vous raconter des histoires sur les animaux que j’ai eus, pour vous montrer que je ne pourrais pas avoir tué les poissons autrement que sans le faire exprès. J’ai bon espoir qu’à la fin de ce livre vous me connaissiez mieux et...
Après les éditions complètes des Nouvelles et des Chroniques, voici celle de la Correspondance de Clarice Lispector qui réunit pour la première fois en un seul volume près de 300 lettres, dont plus de 70 inédites, de l’une des plus grandes écrivaines de son temps. Elles...
Lori est institutrice, Ulysse, professeur de philosophie. Leurs rendez-vous s’inscrivent dans un quotidien banal. Mais elle est Lori-Lorelei, une sirène, et lui est le sage Ulysse qui vit à distance, voyageur immobile qui attend la femme, l’observe à chaque étape de sa...
"La Passion selon G. H." est un classique incontournable de la littérature brésilienne contemporaine, dont l’intrigue repose sur quelques éléments à peine : un évènement apparemment banal fait irruption dans le cours habituel des jours et provoque un séisme intérieur...
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