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Clarice Lispector
In Água Viva Clarice Lispector aims to ‘capture the present’. This is a masterly work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction.
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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…
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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…
Clarice Lispector’s sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was twenty-three and earned her the name ‘Hurricane Clarice’. She became renowned as Brazil’s greatest…
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Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be…
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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
Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry
‘The morning became a long, drawn-out…
Features stories ranging from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don’t know…
Available in English for the first time, The Chandelieris one of Lispector’s most radical books and a key part of what made her a Brazilian legend.