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Author:Clarice Lispector
A Breath of Life: Pulsations
A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work has never before been translated. Lispector did not even live to see it published.At her death, a mountain of fragments remained to...- $15.95
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Água Viva
A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally innovative, and philosophically...- $14.95
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An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures
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...- $15.95
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An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures
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...- $22.95
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Author:Clarice Lispector
Complete 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...- $21.95
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Covert Joy: Selected Stories
Author: Clarice LispectorISBN-10: 0811238873ISBN-13: 9780811238878Publisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2024Format: Hardcover- $22.95
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Author:Clarice Lispector
Family Ties
The silent rage that seizes a matriarch whose family is feting her eighty-ninth year.The tangle of emotions felt by a sophisticated young woman toward her elderly mother. An adolescent girl's obsessive fear of being looked at. The "giddying sense of compassion" that a blind...- $22.95
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Near to the Wild Heart
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:...- $15.95
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Author:Clarice Lispector
Selected Cronicas
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...- $16.95
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The Apple in the Dark
"It's the best one," Clarice Lispector remarked on the occasion of the publication of The Apple in the Dark: "I can't define it, how it is, I can only say that it's much better constructed than the previous ones." A book in three chapters,...- $19.95
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The Besieged City
Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector's third novel--the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals--is in English at last. Lucrécia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors--soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus--are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, which is...- $23.95
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The Besieged City
Rich with visions, miraculous horses, and linguistic ecstasy, The Besieged City stars Lucrécia. Clarice Lispector's heroine is a materialistic girl free of the burden of thought: "Behold, behold, all of her, terribly physical, one of the objects.""The object--the thing," Lispector once remarked, "always fascinated...- $16.95
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Author:Clarice Lispector
The Chandelier
The Chandelier, written when Lispector was only twenty-three, reveals a very different author from the college student whose debut novel, Near to the Wild Heart, announced the landfall of "Hurricane Clarice." Virginia and her cruel, beautiful brother, Daniel, grow up in a decaying country...- $16.95
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Author:Clarice Lispector
The Foreign Legion
The Foreign Legion is a collection in two parts, gathering both stories and chronicles, and it offers wonderful evidence of Clarice Lispector's unique sensibility and range as an exponent of experimental prose. It opens with thirteen stories and the second part of the book...- $16.95
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The Hour of the Star
Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macab a, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macab a loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her...- $12.95
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The Hour of the Star: 100th Anniversary Edition
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking...- $17.95
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The Passion According to G.H.
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...- $15.95
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The Woman Who Killed the Fish
"That woman who killed the fish unfortunately is me," begins the title story, but "if it were my fault, I'd own up to you, since I don't lie to boys and girls. I only lie sometimes to a certain type of grownup because there's...- $17.95
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Author:Clarice Lispector
Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas
The things I've learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don't know. Or maybe they do even when they don't. There are...- $29.95
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Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas
In the magnificent feast of Clarice Lispector's books, her crônicas―short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces―are the delicious canapés.The things I've learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot...- $64.95
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Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas
In the magnificent feast of Clarice Lispector's books, her crônicas―short, intensely vivid newspaper pieces―are the delicious canapés.The things I've learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot...- $44.95
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