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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
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