Clarice Lispector

Covert Joy: Selected Stories (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the massive treasure house of her hugely successful Complete Stories, gathered here are the most glittering gems of Clarice Lispector's short fiction

This radiant selection of Clarice Lispector's best and best-loved stories includes such familiar favorites as The Smallest Woman in the World,Love, Family Ties, and The Egg and the Chicken. Lispector's luminous regard for life's small revelatory incidents is legendary, and here her genius is concentrated in a fizzing, portable volume. Covert Joy offers the particular bliss a book can bring that she expresses in the title story:

Joy would always be covert for me... Sometimes I'd sit in the hammock, swinging with the book open on my lap, not touching it, in the purest ecstasy.I was no longer a girl with a book: I was a woman with her lover

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811238885
• Artikelnr.: 72258959

Autorenporträt

Clarice Lispector (19201977), 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).