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Lispector’s writing has a timeless quality. There are few references to specific places or events; instead, we’re deep in Joana’s psyche, following one epiphany after another as she tries to make sense of the exterior world. The book was given its Joycean title by someone else than the author, but the story greatly reminds me of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Growing up, family relations, teachers, sexuality, Christianity, and, above all, a preoccupation with mental landscapes.
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There is a recent revival of interest in Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector's (1920-1977 )work which includes biographies, new translations, new collections and now even audiobooks of the new translations such as this current 2018 Audible Audio edition of the 2nd (2012) translation of her first novel written in 1942 when she was first working as a journalist and then published to great acclaim in 1943.
I wish now that I had read this first prior to my actual introduction to her work in The Compl ...more
I wish now that I had read this first prior to my actual introduction to her work in The Compl ...more
Wow! This book knocked me over with its brilliance and power. Why is this author so little known in the Anglophone world?
I need to get more of her work.
I need to get more of her work.
Jul 25, 2013
Lazarus P Badpenny Esq
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Vipassana
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