The Besieged City
Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector's third novel-the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals-is in English at last. Lucrécia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors-soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus-are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, which is of a piece with Sao Geraldo, the rough-and-ready township she inhabits. Civilization is on its way to this place, where wild horses still roam. As Lucrécia is tamed by marriage, Sao Geraldo gradually expels its horses; and as the town strives for the highest attainment it can conceive-a viaduct-it takes on the progressively more metropolitan ma…
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Weitere Autoren: Moser, Benjamin (Hrsg.) / Lorenz, Johnny (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2671-4
- EAN: 9780811226714
- Produktnummer: 27762131
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H20.6 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.3 cm 408 g
- Gewicht: 408
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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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