The Besieged City
$19.05
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
17 September 2019
Summary
Clarice Lispector’s revelatory third novel, now in English for the first time. Written in flight from Lispector’s ‘shipwreck of introspection,’ it is a book unlike any other in the Lispector canon, a novel about simply seeing the external world. Its heroine, Lucrecia, is utterly mute and unreflective. She may have no inner life.
The plot itself is utterly unlike any other Lispector narrative: small-town girl marries rich man, sees the world, and lives happily ever after. But there are…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241371374 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241371376 |
| Author: | Clarice Lispector, Johnny Lorenz |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 184g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Prolific and peerless … a Brazilian national treasure … Clarice sought a knowledge beyond knowledge, a wisdom that left wisdom behind … through her texts emerges the struggle of life: how to live each day, what the painful process of loving is, why one should pick up a pen and respond to indignity in the first place – Carlos Valladares * Gagosian Quarterly *
About The Author
Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually Brazil. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart, in 1943, when she was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Gra a Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.
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