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"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 rep...more
Paperback, 296 pages
Published
November 17th 1996
by New Directions
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Written in the arch, prickly style used by many high-minded early- and mid-20th century authors, especially females (see, Rebecca West). This is not a criticism but a description, one said with a sigh, as a woman writing in this tone would get her heart ripped out by online naysayers -- assuming she got interest from a publisher at all, which she wouldn't. Anyway, Cronicas are sketches written for a Brazilian newspaper. They're short little things, much like blog posts. See, not much changes (ex...more
A delight that Brazil newspapers give novelists and poets a column of their own to write about anything they want, which is exciting for a writer like Clarice Lispector who is very personal, anecdotal, inquisitive. I enjoyed this selection of her cronicas, but I drifted multiple times for pieces like the chicken and egg story, found it "weird" that she would hate turtles so much and predict their extinction in a thousand years or so, and I wish there were more pieces about teenagers in anguish a...more
I can no longer recall where it began but I know I did not start at the beginning. It was, in a manner of speaking, all written simultaneously. Everything was there, or appeared to be there as if within the temporal space of an open piano with its simultaneous keys.
I wrote with the utmost care as the narrative began to take shape inside me, and only after the fifth version had been patiently drafted did I become fully aware of the text. Only then did I begin to understand more clearly what was...more
I wrote with the utmost care as the narrative began to take shape inside me, and only after the fifth version had been patiently drafted did I become fully aware of the text. Only then did I begin to understand more clearly what was...more
My favorite book.
"One day a leaf grazed my eyelashes, and I thought to myself: God is being extremely delicate."
"And when it comes to writing? Here there are great temptations because the dividing line between bad taste and truth is almost imperceptible."
ha! How can you not love this?
Just reread after many years.
"One day a leaf grazed my eyelashes, and I thought to myself: God is being extremely delicate."
"And when it comes to writing? Here there are great temptations because the dividing line between bad taste and truth is almost imperceptible."
ha! How can you not love this?
Just reread after many years.
A wonderful introduction to Lispector. It's a collection of short pieces Lispector used to write as a columnist for . They are not at all journalistic however. Instead they are wonderful meditations, philosophical bits, encounters, prose poems. This is the sort of book I like to read when I feel stuck.
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Clarice escrevia desde que aprendeu a ler, em Recife, onde passou parte da sua infância. Seu primeiro romance, publicado em 1944, foi chamado Perto do Coração Selvagem. Na época, a literatura brasileira era dominada por romances regionalistas mas Clarice surpreendeu a crítica ao lançar romances existencialistas.
Seu romance mais famoso é A Hora da Estrela, publicado antes de sua morte.
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Seu romance mais famoso é A Hora da Estrela, publicado antes de sua morte.
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