Covert Joy

AvClarice Lispector

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Covert Joy is an electric volume starring such landmark Clarice Lispector stories as “The Smallest Woman in the World,” “Love,” “Family Ties,” and “The Egg and the Chicken.” As expressed in the title story, Covert Joy offers all the bliss that only a great book can bring: Joy would always be covert for me. . . Sometimes I’d sit in the hammock, swinging with the book open on my lap, not touching it, in the purest ecstasy. I was no longer a girl with a book: I was a woman with her lover.These stories embody all the many wonders of Clarice Lispector’s short fiction and were selected from Complete Stories, named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, NPR, BBC, Vogue, Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, LitHub, Kirkus Reviews, Boston Globe, and the San Francisco Chronicle. “Clarice Lispector’s stories are strangely restorative,” as Rachel Kushner remarks in her foreword. “While reading itself is not passive, you can relax, while she is hard at work, asking questions that are inside you, too, so that you yourself don’t have to frame them. Her aspiration is nothing less than to uncover the bizarre mystery of consciousness, to contemplate being while being, to apprehend life while living it. Someone has to do this work. Lispector seems to have recognized that she had a gift for the job and plunged in.”

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-10
Mått:127 x 203 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Medarbetare:Paulo GurgelValente
ISBN:9780811240888
Översättare:Katrina Dodson

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Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called “astounding” (Rachel Kushner), “a penetrating genius” (Donna Seaman, Booklist), and “one of the twentieth century’s most mysterious writers” (Orhan Pamuk). Katrina Dodson’s translation of The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector was awarded the PEN Translation Prize, the American Translators Association Lewis Galantière Award, and a Northern California Book Award. She translated Mário de Andrade’s 1928 Brazilian modernist classic, Macunaíma: The Hero with No Character. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The Believer, McSweeney’s, Triple Canopy and elsewhere. Dodson holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley and is an affiliated scholar of the Brazil LAB at Princeton University. A San Francisco native, she now lives in Brooklyn and teaches translation at Columbia University. Rachel Kushner is the bestselling author of The Flamethrowers, Telex from Cuba, The Mars Room, and, most recently, Creation Lake. Paulo Gurgel Valente, the son of Clarice Lispector, was born in Washington, DC, in 1953, while his father was stationed in the Brazilian embassy: he is himself a noted Brazilian writer, both as a novelist and nonfiction author.