Complete Stories (Lispector Clarice)(Paperback)

Complete Stories (Lispector Clarice)(Paperback)

Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their

Complete Stories (Lispector Clarice)(Paperback / softback)

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

Besieged City (Lispector Clarice)(Paperback / softback)

A Breath of Life: Pulsations (Lispector Clarice)(Paperback)

A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work has never before been translated. Lispector did not even live to see it published.At her death, a mountain of fragments remained to be 'structured' by

Near to the Wild Heart (Lispector Clarice)(Paperback / softback)

Why This World - A Biography of Clarice Lispector (Moser Benjamin)(Paperback / softback)

Tells how Clarice Lispector through long exile abroad and difficult personal struggles, matured into a great writer, and asserts, for the first time, the deep roots in the Jewish mystical tradition that make her the true heir to Kafka as well as the unlikely author of 'perhaps the greatest

Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector (Moser Benjamin)(Paperback)

That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers. Now, after years of research on three continents, drawing on previously unknown manuscripts and dozens of interviews,

Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (Lispector Clarice)(Paperback / softback)

gua Viva (Lispector Clarice)(Paperback)

A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally innovative, and philosophically profound as

The Passion According to G.H. (Lispector Clarice)(Paperback)

The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector's mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid's room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door--crushing the cockroach--and then watches it die. At the end of the novel,

Reading with Clarice Lispector, 73 (Cixous Helene)(Paperback)

The texts that comprise this volume were selected from Cixous' seminars on the work of Clarice Lispector. They reflect Cixous' meditations on the art of reading, writing and related themes such as giving and loving as well as trace the influence of Lispector on Cixous' own

Girls Against God (Hval Jenny)(Paperback)

A genre-warping, time-travelling horror novel-slash-feminist manifesto for fans of Clarice Lispector and Jeanette Winterson. Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her work, things start stirring themselves up

Breath of Life (Lispector Clarice)(Paperback / softback)

Written in agony, this book features elegiac meditation on the creation of life, and of

Agua Viva (Lispector Clarice)(Paperback / softback)

Despite its apparent spontaneity, this is a work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and

Forgotten Journey (Ocampo Silvina)(Paperback)

The world is ready for her blend of insane Angela Carter with the originality of Clarice Lispector.--Mariana Enriquez, LitHubDelicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult imbalances of love.Both her debut story collection,

Family Ties (Lispector Clarice)(Paperback)

The silent rage that seizes a matriarch whose family is feting her eighty-ninth year.The tangle of emotions felt by a sophisticated young woman toward her elderly mother. An adolescent girl's obsessive fear of being looked at. The 'giddying sense of compassion' that a blind man introduces into a

Near to the Wild Heart (Lispector Clarice)(Paperback)

Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called 'Hurricane Clarice' a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: 'He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild

Hour of the Star (Lispector Clarice)(Paperback / softback)

Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and

Passion According to G.H (Lispector Clarice)(Paperback / softback)

G H, a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. There she sees a cockroach - black, dusty, prehistoric - crawling out of the wardrobe and, panicking, slams the door on

The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington (Carrington Leonora)(Paperback)

'Complete Stories, a collection of Carrington's published and unpublished short stories--many newly translated from their original French and Spanish--is a terrific introduction to her bizarre, dreamlike worlds.' --Carmen Maria Machado, NPR Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington

Complete Stories (Parker Dorothy)(Paperback)

As this complete collection of her short stories demonstrates, Dorothy Parker's talents extended far beyond brash one-liners and clever rhymes. Her stories not only bring to life the urban milieu that was her bailiwick but lay bare the uncertainties and disappointments of ordinary people living

Complete Short Stories (Graves Robert)(Paperback / softback)

Complete Stories (Desai Anita)(Paperback / softback)

The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai's short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the

Complete Short Fiction (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback)

The complete short stories of the masterful Irish writer Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners--the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in a wide range of literary styles. Victorian moral