Clarice Lispector: The Chandelier (Penguin Modern Classics)

Name: Clarice Lispector: The Chandelier (Penguin Modern Classics)
Author: Lispector, Clarice & Moser, Benjamin & Edwards, Magdalena
ISBN: 9780241371343

by Lispector, Clarice & Moser, Benjamin & Edwards, Magdalena

ISBN: 9780241371343

Published: 2019-11-28

Fiction

"Fresh from the enormous success of her debut novel Near to the Wild Heart, Hurricane Clarice let loose something stormier in 1946 with her second novel, The Chandelier. In a body of work renowned for its potent idiosyncratic genius, The Chandelier in many ways has pride of place. "It stands out," her biographer Benjamin Moser noted, "in a strange and difficult body of work, as perhaps her strangest and most difficult book." Of glacial intensity, consisting almost entirely of interior monologues--interrupted by odd and jarring fragments of dialogue and action--the novel moves in slow waves that crest in moments of revelation. As she seeks freedom via creation, the drama of Virginia's isolated life is almost entirely internal: from childhood, she sculpts clay figurines with "the best clay one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold. She got a clear and tender material from which she could shape a world. How, how to explain the miracle..." While on one level simply the story of a...

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