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    <body><![CDATA[Devaneo y embriaguez de una muchacha<br/>Amor<br/>Una gallina<br/>La imitación de la rosa<br/>Feliz cumpleaños<br/>La mujer más pequeña del mundo<br/>Lazos de familia<br/>La cena<br/>Preciosidad<br/>Comienzos de una fortuna<br/>Misterio en Sao Cristovao<br/>El crimen del profesor de matemáticas...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Lispector writes good short fiction but she seems to conclude each of her stories with an enigmatic little hook, presumably designed to make the reader think back to the complete story.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My first Clarice Lispector. I read it the way I read Virginia Woolf, not because they have much to do with one another, but because both authors' density of language and minutae and character psychology demands slowness. There's just so much to love in these stories: all the women with their nausea ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40671796">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Cuentos minuciosamente construidos que tendré que leer varias veces más, me parece. Lispector tiene un estilo encantador que hace que todo sea interesante, sin importar lo poco universal que sea su tema.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Literarians book group at the Merc loved this, as did I.  Quirky, haunting stories in the existential mode by a Brazilian writer that deserves much wider recognition.  Thanks to Marina Heck and Idra Novey for recommending her.]]></body>
    
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