Written in flight from Lispector’s ‘shipwreck of introspection’ it is a book unlike any other in the Lispector canon, a novel about simply seeing the external world. Its heroine Lucrécia is utterly mute and unreflective. She may have no inner life. The plot itself is utterly unlike any other Lispector narrative: small-town girl marries rich man, sees the world, and lives happily ever after.

But there are miraculous horses, linguistic ecstasies, catty remarks, minor characters’ visions and music from unknown sources. There is Lucrécia, the heroine free of the burden of thought, who ‘leaned over without any individuality, trying merely to look at things directly’. And yet her ‘mere’ looking leads, as Lispector’s biographer Benjamin Moser notes, ‘paradoxically but inevitably, to Clarice’s own metaphysical concerns. As it turns out, not being profound is simply another way of being profound’.

Translated by Johnny Lorenz

Informações sobre o Livro

Título do livro : THE BESIEGED CITY – 1ªED.(2019)
Autor : Clarice Lispector
Idioma : Inglês
Editora do livro : PENGUIN BOOKS
Edição do livro : 1
Capa do livro : Mole
Ano de publicação : 2019
Quantidade de páginas : 160
Peso : 320 g
Gênero do livro : Literatura e ficção
Tipo de narração : Conto
Data de publicação : 01-08-2019
Altura : 30 cm
Largura : 23 cm