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Complete Stories

By Clarice Lispector
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector offers an evocative collection of tales that delve into the complexities of human emotions and existential musings. These stories intricately explore themes of identity, love, and the metaphysical, often presented through the lens of everyday experiences. Lispector's distinctive voice and profound insight provide an enchanting journey into the depths of human consciousness.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate thought-provoking, existential narratives infused with rich psychological depth. Clarice Lispector weaves intricate tales that explore the complexities of human experience, often tinged with surreal and abstract elements, all conveyed through her unique and captivating prose.

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Complete Stories

Features stories ranging from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with themselves.

This collection, gathering all her stories together for the first time in English, shows us abandonments and dependencies, animals too deeply loved and then eaten, the smallest woman in the world, moments of madness and passions that have the ferocity of a fork plunged into a good friend's neck.

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Major new collection of Clarice Lispector's short stories for the first time in English.

The publication of Clarice Lispector's Complete Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend— from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with themselves.

Lispector's stories take us through their lives— and ours. From one of the greatest modern writers, these 85 stories, gathered from the nine collections published during her lifetime, follow Clarice Lispector throughout her life.

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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Clarice Lispector is celebrated as a hidden genius of the twentieth century and is highly regarded for her lively intelligence and humour. Her work is often compared to literary giants such as Kafka and Joyce, affirming her status as a true original in Latin American literature. The Complete Stories is translated beautifully and offers readers profound insights, drawing both new and old readers into its depths. It's likened to a literary treasure, capable of converting readers into devout admirers.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141197388

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 27 August 2015

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Translated by Katrina Dodson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 122.0mm

Height: 186.0mm

Weight: 460g

Pages: 672

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Clarice Lispector Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Penguin Modern Classics

About the Author

Clarice Lispector (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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