Böcker av Clarice Lispector

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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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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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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The publication of Clarice Lispector's Collected 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 sexual...

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Ett kvinnligt jag skriver till ett manligt du och skildrar sin oro och sina sökanden i en oupphörligt flödande monolog som rör sig mellan yrande, bekännelse och förförelse: När jag ska skriva till dig tar jag först på mig parfym över hela mig. Spr...

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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 she sees a cockroach - black, dusty, prehistoric - crawling out of the wardr...

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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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Med Hemlig lycka presenteras novellisten Clarice Lispector, efter tre romaner på Tranan. I tjugofem korta noveller visar Lispector prov på sin humor, skärpa och närhet till språket. Novellerna präglas av ögonblicksbilder, och är mer klassiskt skur...

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Familjeband utkom 1960, men innehåller noveller som skrivits under tjugo år. Den äldsta, "Middagen", skrevs redan 1943. Ett antal av novellerna hade publicerats i en tunn volym 1952 och de resterande färdigställde Clarice Lispector tre å...

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Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea 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 Ro...

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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 childhood, as the 'lit...

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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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'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 spiri...

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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...

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Finns det människor som är överflödiga? Kan man leva sig in i en annan människas tankevärld? Kan man föreställa sig en ung kvinna som aldrig blivit kysst? Stjärnans ögonblick handlar om tre unga människor som lever i en hård och cynisk värld: Maca...

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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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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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In Agua 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 influenc...

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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: the speaking, shi...

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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 childhood, as the 'lit...

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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 she sees a cockroach - black, dusty, prehistoric - crawling out of the wardr...

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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 influence...

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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: the speaking, shi...

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The publication of Clarice Lispector's Collected 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 sexual...

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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' Li...

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'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' Colm Toibin 'She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the love-liest way to see herself' Lucrecia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. She may have no inner...

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The silent rage that seizes a matriarch whose family is feting her eighty-ninth year.The tangle of emotions felt by a sophisticated young woman toward her elderly mother. An adolescent girl's obsessive fear of being looked at. The "giddying s...

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Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macab a 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 Ro...

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