Lispector is the premier Latin American woman prose writer of this century

The New York Times Book Review

Clarice Lispector left behind an astounding body of work that has no real corollary inside literature or outside it

- Rachel Kushner, Bookforum

Brilliant and unclassifiable: glamorous, cultured, moody, Lispector is an emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same pantheon as Kafka and Joyce

- Edmund White,

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One of the true originals of Latin American literature

- Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times Book Review

A genius on the level of Nabokov

- Jeff VanderMeer, Slate

Sphinx, sorceress, sacred monster. The revival of the hypnotic Clarice Lispector has been one of the true literary events of the twenty-first century

- Parul Seghal, The New York Times

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 it fall'Martim, believing that he has committed a murder, flees the city and escapes into the night. Wandering through the vastness of nature he arrives, in a state of fear and wonder, at a remote ranch run by two women. There Martim finds work and, as he labours in the blistering heat of the Brazilian summer, becomes transfigured; remade into something else entirely.Translated by Benjamin Moser 'The most important Brazilian woman writer of the twentieth century... The richness of The Apple in the Dark defies the explanatory power of any single interpretation' TLS
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780241371350
Publisert
2023-10-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Classics
Vekt
294 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
400

Forfatter
Oversetter

Om bidragsyterne

Clarice Lispector was born in Ukraine in 1920. In the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, her family fled to Brazil, where she arrived when she was a little more than a year old. She published her first novel, Near to the Wild Heart, in 1943, when she was just twenty-three, and died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.