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Near To The Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heartwas published when she was twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'. She became renowned as Brazil's greatest twentieth-century writer. It tells the story of Joana, from her wild, creative childhood, as the ...Show more
THE HOUR OF THE STAR by Clarice Lispector
Category: Fiction
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
Category: Fiction
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)
Category: Fiction
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
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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. Lucr cia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors--soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus--are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, whic ...Show more
The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector; Magdalena Edwards; Benjamin Moser
Category: Fiction
Now, for the first time in English we have Clarice Lispector's second novel--a radical part of what made her a Brazilian legend Fresh from the enormous success of her debut novel Near to the Wild Heart, Hurricane Clarice let loose something stormier with The Chandelier. In a body of work renowned for it ...Show more
The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 mansion. They l ...Show more
The Complete Stories: Lispector by Clarice Lispector
Category: Fiction
The recent publication by New Directions of five Lispector novels revealed to legions of new readers her darkness and dazzle. 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 hous ...Show more
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Clarice Lispector died of cancer at the age of fifty-six on 9th December 1977. "The Hour of the Star" was published that same year and acclaimed by the critics as 'a regional allegory' of extraordinary awareness and insight. Lispector herself defined "The Hour of the Star" as a book 'made without words. ...Show more
The Hour of the Star - 100th Anniversary Edition by Clarice Lispector; Benjamin Moser (Translator); Paulo Gurgel Valente (Afterword by)
Category: Classics
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 out a poor living as a typist, Macabé ...Show more
The Imitation of the Rose by Clarice Lispector
Category: Fiction
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Thirteen short tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the twentieth century. The small inciden ...Show more
The Passion According to G.H by Clarice Lispector
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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, slams the door on it. Her irresistibl ...Show more