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The Imitation of the Rose

By Clarice Lispector
Series: Little Clothbound Classics
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The Imitation of the Rose by Clarice Lispector intricately explores the psychological landscape of a woman grappling with her sense of reality and inner turmoil. The narrative delves into her obsessive focus on a beautiful rose, which serves as a symbol of her quest for order amidst the chaos of her thoughts. With subtle and profound prose, Lispector captures the fragility and complexity of the human psyche in this artistic examination of identity and perception.
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The Imitation of the Rose

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Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas, and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the luminous writing of Clarice Lispector. A woman contemplating a vase of roses after a nervous breakdown; a tangled mother-daughter relationship; a man's abandonment of a dog; an animal in a zoo—each one leads to mystery and self-discovery, delight and devastation.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241630846

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 25 May 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Translated by Katrina Dodson
  • Edited by Benjamin Moser

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 118.0mm

Height: 168.0mm

Weight: 208g

Pages: 192

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Clarice Lispector Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Little Clothbound Classics

About the Author

Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually Brazil. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart, in 1943, when she was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Gra a Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.

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