Clarice Lispector - Böcker

One of Elena Ferrante's Top 40 Books by Women G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. There she sees a cock...

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Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'. It tells the story of Joana, from her wild, creative childho...

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In gua Viva Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in their emotional power and have been a huge...

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Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macaba loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved. Yet telling her story is the narrator Rod...

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Nära det vilda hjärtat (1944) är en skeptisk betraktelse över äktenskapet, skriven av en romandebuterande, tjugotreårig Clarice Lispector. Hon har just avslutat sina juridikstudier och arbetar nu som journalist. Samma år gifter hon sig med en bliv...

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Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In th...

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Clarice Lispectors fiktiva person »Författaren« skapar Ângela genom att likt Gud i skapelseberättelsen blåsa liv i sin gestalt. På det sättet tänker han sig kunna föra ett samtal med sitt mörka inre. Men när Författaren inser att han inte längre k...

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Macbéa lever ett innehållslöst liv i Rio de Janeiro. Hon har precis blivit uppsagd från sitt arbete som maskinskriverska, men får vara kvar då chefen tycker synd om henne. Fritiden ägnar Macabéa åt radiokanalen Radio UR, som ger »Rätt tid och kult...

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Clarice Lispector föddes 1920 i Ukraina, inte 1925 som hon själv hävdade. När hon var drygt ett år gammal kom hon till Brasilien och portugisiska blev således hennes modersmål. Hon debuterade som författare 1944 och producerade tretton romaner och...

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Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector's third novel--the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals--is in English at last

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"It's the best one," Clarice Lispector remarked on the occasion of the publication of The Apple in the Dark : "I can't define it, how it is, I can only say that it's much better constructed than the previous ones." A book in th...

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A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life 'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of...

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'The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently through the house' Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pionee...

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A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, ...

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Martim är på flykt från en brottsplats. Han vandrar till fots mot Brasiliens torra och karga högland tills han en dag når fram till en avskilt belägen gård. På gården bor Vitória tillsammans med sin kusin Ermelinda den ena rädd för att leva, den a...

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The Passion According to G.H. , Clarice Lispector's mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid's room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door -crushing the cockroa...

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Året är 1942 då den 22 år gamla Clarice Lispector skriver till vännen Lúcio Cardoso att hon vill vara mer än en kvinna. Det finns levande vatten i henne, hon vet det, men hon har svårt att hitta källan. Hon ska ett år senare debutera med romanen N...

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Clarice Lispector föddes 1920 i Ukraina. När hon var drygt ett år gammal kom hon till Brasilien. Hon debuterade som portugisspråkig författare 1944 och producerade tretton romaner och novell-samlingar innan hon dog, 1977. Idag anses hon vara en av...

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A Breath of Life is Clarice Lispector's final novel, 'written in agony', which she did not live to see published. Sensual and mysterious, it is a mystical dialogue between a god-like author and the creation he breathes life into: th...

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The publication of Clarice Lispector's Complete Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their se...

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Clarice Lispector's masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time'She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold ... She would get a clear and tender material from which she could shape a world'Like...

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Described by Clarice Lispector as 'the best one', this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical, enigmatic masterpiece'All I've got is hunger. And that instable way of grasping an apple in the dark-without letting ...

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'One of the very great writers of the last century' Guardian'Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before' Colm T ib n'He'd wait for her, she knew that now. Until she learned'L ri yearns for love yet is scared of hers...

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'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' Colm T ib n'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the love liest way to see herself'Lucr cia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. She may have no inner l...

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'The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently through the house'Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit ...

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Clarice Lispector's masterly second novel, now available in English for the first time 'She found the best clay that one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold ... She would get a clear and tender material from which she could shape a...

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Described by Clarice Lispector as 'the best one', this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical, enigmatic masterpiece 'All I've got is hunger. And that instable way of grasping an apple in the ...

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'One of the very great writers of the last century' Guardian 'Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before' Colm Tibn 'He'd wait for her, she knew that now. Until she learned' Lri ye...

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'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' Colm Tibn 'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the loveliest way to see herself' Lucrcia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. She m...

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A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life 'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of bein...

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