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"Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting ... the country's great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age, and began to unearth the strange, inspiring, and terrifying stories of the artists who gave shape to one of the most luminous moments in the history of human creativity. Beyond the sainted Rembrandt--who harbored a startling darkness--and the mysterious...
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New Directions
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English
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"One of the most phenomenally acclaimed and successful books of recent years is now available as a paperback--with three just-discovered stories. 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 sexual...
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New Directions
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xii, 194 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue frame the life of Joana, from her middle-class childhood through her unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence, when she proclaims: zI shall arise as strong and comely as a young colt.y
8) Água viva
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Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2012
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xiv, 88 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2012
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xi, 193 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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G.H., a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters her maid's room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door on it. The sight of the dying insect provokes a mystical crisis, at the height of which comes one of the most famous and genuinely shocking scenes in Latin American literature. Clarice Lispector wrote that of all of her works this novel was the one that "best corresponded to her demands as a writer."
10) The chandelier
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Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"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,...
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Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
244 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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A Rio de Janeiro Thriller
When his daughter disappears and a patient emerges as the prime suspect, a troubled psychiatrist comes to Espinosa for help, in the fifth novel in the beguiling Brazilian crime series
A hospital psychiatrist feels he's being stalked by a young patient. For as long as possible, he convinces himself that the young man is harmless, but when the doctor's daughter disappears and the patient goes missing, too, he calls on Espinosa...
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Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
243 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Unable to forget the unsolved murder of a homeless man, Chief Inspector Espinosa investigates a group of affluent guests who had dined at a nearby mansion on the night of the killing, exposing a web of lies and cover-ups.
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New Directions Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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""It's the best one," Clarice Lispector remarked on the occasion of the publication of The Apple in the Dark: "I can't define it, how it is, I can only say that it's much better constructed than the previous ones." A book in three chapters, with three central characters, The Apple in the Dark is in fact highly sculpted, while being chiefly a metaphysical book, and in this stunning new translation, the novel's mysteries and allegories glow with a fresh...
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New Directions paperbook volume 1212
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English
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"The devastating final work by Brazil's greatest modern writer, The Hour of the Star tells the haunting tale of Macabéa-a typist who lives in the slums of Rio-underfed, sickly, and unloved, yet inwardly free"--
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Publisher
Open Letter
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 592 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""The book itself is strange-part Faulknerian meditation on the perversities, including sexual, of degenerate country folk; part Dostoevskian examination of good and evil and God-but in its strangeness lies its rare power, and in the sincerity and seriousness with which the essential questions are posed lies its greatness."--Benjamin Moser, from the introduction. Long considered one of the most important works of twentieth-century Brazilian literature,...
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Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 149 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In The Apprenticeship, or The Book of Pleasures, Clarice Lispector tries to discover how to bridge the gap between people, or how to even begin to try. A woman struggles to emerge from solitude and sadness into love, including sexual love: her guide on this journey is Ulisses, who (yes) leads her patiently into the fullness of life."--
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Series
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Brazilian bestseller, this sophisticated story of murder, sex, and corruption introduces a riveting new crime series.
In a parking garage in the center of Rio de Janeiro, corporate executive Ricardo Carvalho is found dead in his car, a bullet in his head. It appears that he has been robbed and murdered. But, the clues are few. The gun and his briefcase are nowhere to be found, just the kind of case that is always assigned to Inspector Espinosa....
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Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
225 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Espinosa unwittingly ignites the obsessions of a menacing misanthrope in the latest from the highly acclaimed mystery author
An elderly lady approaches the front desk at the Twelfth Precinct in Copacabana and demands to speak with the chief. Tired after a long day, she leaves without further explanation, promising to return. Two hours later, Doña Laureta is dead, and witnesses' accounts vary as to whether she was pushed or fell in front...
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
242 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young man predicts a murder and identifies the perpetrator-himself-in this third entry in the critically acclaimed Brazilian crime series
When a terrified young man arrives at the station with a bizarre story, Chief Espinosa of the Copacabana precinct is more than happy to set aside his paperwork. A psychic has predicted that the man would commit a murder, it seems, and the prediction has become fact in the young man's mind. It's a case more appropriate...
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