Agua Viva
$21.25
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
14 March 2014
Summary
A masterly work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction.
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 on many artists and writers, including one Brazilian musician who read it one hundred and eleven times. Despite its apparent spont…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141197364 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141197366 |
| Author: | Clarice Lispector, Stefan Tobler |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 14 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 98g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 7mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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An emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same pantheon as Kafka and Joyce
A bewitching, jewel-like book unlike anything in modern literature. Agua Viva baffles and inspires me … Each word of the book lands with the sweet force of a blade … crystalline – Carlos Valladares * Gagosian Quarterly *An emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same pantheon as Kafka and Joyce * Edmund White *Lispector stands at the pinnacle of Brazil’s impressive literary achievement * Washington Post Book World *One of the very great writers of the last century * Guardian *
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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