An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
A love story by the great Clarice Lispector that asks: Just how might two people be joined?Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only to love and to be loved,” but also to be worthy of life itself.”Published in 1968, An Apprenticeship is Clarice Lispector's attempt to reinvent herself following the exhausting effort of her metap…
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Weitere Autoren: Tobler, Stefan (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-3067-4
- EAN: 9780811230674
- Produktnummer: 36003651
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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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).
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