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Print length672 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherPenguin Classics
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Publication date27 August 2015
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Dimensions12.9 x 2.9 x 19.8 cm
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ISBN-100141197382
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ISBN-13978-0141197388
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One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century -- Colm Tóbín
Lispector reads with lively intelligence and is terrifically funny. Language, for her, was the self's light -- Lorrie Moore
An emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same pantheon as Kafka and Joyce -- Edmund White
Lispector's Complete Stories is a remarkable book, proof that she was - in the company of Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo and her 19th-century countryman Machado de Assis - one of the true originals of Latin American literature ― New York Times
Plenty of writers inspire fierce devotion in their readers... but no one converts the uninitiated into devout believers as suddenly and as vertiginously as Clarice Lispector, the Latin American visionary, Ukrainian-Jewish mystic, and middle-class housewife and mother so revered by her Brazilian fans that she's known by a single name: "Clarice"... You will not be disappointed if you read The Complete Stories. It might even become your bible ― New Republic
Translated beautifully and with a vigorous pulse by Katrina Dodson, The Complete Stories is bound to become a kind of bedside Bible or I Ching for readers of Lispector, both old and new. Wherever one opens the book, there is a slice of life to confront. In one of her later stories Lispector recalls the writer Sergio Porto, her friend, who was once asked by a stewardess on a plane if he wanted coffee. To which he replied: "I'll take everything I have a right to." We can approach this volume in a similar spirit: take everything ― Publishers Weekly
Lispector reads with lively intelligence and is terrifically funny. Language, for her, was the self's light -- Lorrie Moore
An emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same pantheon as Kafka and Joyce -- Edmund White
Lispector's Complete Stories is a remarkable book, proof that she was - in the company of Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo and her 19th-century countryman Machado de Assis - one of the true originals of Latin American literature ― New York Times
Plenty of writers inspire fierce devotion in their readers... but no one converts the uninitiated into devout believers as suddenly and as vertiginously as Clarice Lispector, the Latin American visionary, Ukrainian-Jewish mystic, and middle-class housewife and mother so revered by her Brazilian fans that she's known by a single name: "Clarice"... You will not be disappointed if you read The Complete Stories. It might even become your bible ― New Republic
Translated beautifully and with a vigorous pulse by Katrina Dodson, The Complete Stories is bound to become a kind of bedside Bible or I Ching for readers of Lispector, both old and new. Wherever one opens the book, there is a slice of life to confront. In one of her later stories Lispector recalls the writer Sergio Porto, her friend, who was once asked by a stewardess on a plane if he wanted coffee. To which he replied: "I'll take everything I have a right to." We can approach this volume in a similar spirit: take everything ― Publishers Weekly
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 Graça 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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Product details
- Publisher : Penguin Classics (27 August 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 672 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0141197382
- ISBN-13 : 978-0141197388
- Item Weight : 380 g
- Dimensions : 12.9 x 2.9 x 19.8 cm
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The stories were far better than the reviews.I enjoyed them thoroughly.
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NickyK
5.0 out of 5 stars
Incredible
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 August 2020Verified Purchase
I've been on Amazon 21 years now and have written just a handful of reviews...which no doubt would reflect my aging process. I rarely feel compelled to write a review, but this collection of stories is...well I don't really have the words.
I've had it a year now and read them all in 4 weeks, whilst reading other things. I got to the stage I wanted to savour each story and for the collection not to end, so I slowed down the rate I was reading them. They are really nothing like anything I'd read before, and I've read very widely, especially short stories. They are unusual, although not as unusual as her novels. The language and imagery are incredible and not of a style that I'd found before in native English stories. How much of that is down to the translation, I don't know. There are elements that remind me of Elizabeth Bowen, and William Maxwell and a sense of patience at times that is like Marilynne Robinson. So perhaps if you like those writers, you might like this.
The stories are full of acute insights into human character and those moments when you go, "Oh, I feel that." I wish I was better at reviews, but I'm just an enthusiast - to the extent I now have a framed picture of her in my house.
I'd never heard of her until there was a feature on her in Paris Review in summer 2019 but she was and is a huge figure in Brazilian literature.
Apologies if you buy it and think, "Well this is a load of tosh." But on the other hand, if you love it too, they're amazing aren't they?
I've had it a year now and read them all in 4 weeks, whilst reading other things. I got to the stage I wanted to savour each story and for the collection not to end, so I slowed down the rate I was reading them. They are really nothing like anything I'd read before, and I've read very widely, especially short stories. They are unusual, although not as unusual as her novels. The language and imagery are incredible and not of a style that I'd found before in native English stories. How much of that is down to the translation, I don't know. There are elements that remind me of Elizabeth Bowen, and William Maxwell and a sense of patience at times that is like Marilynne Robinson. So perhaps if you like those writers, you might like this.
The stories are full of acute insights into human character and those moments when you go, "Oh, I feel that." I wish I was better at reviews, but I'm just an enthusiast - to the extent I now have a framed picture of her in my house.
I'd never heard of her until there was a feature on her in Paris Review in summer 2019 but she was and is a huge figure in Brazilian literature.
Apologies if you buy it and think, "Well this is a load of tosh." But on the other hand, if you love it too, they're amazing aren't they?
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Des Lewis
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kaleidoscopic tour de force
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 February 2021Verified Purchase
This substantively kaleidoscopic tour de force continuously hypnotises the reader with a blend of seeming automatic-writing (with deadpan repetitions of BRASILIA IS – followed by non-sequiturs that often later turn out to be sequiturs) and authorially autonomous autobiography of impressions of this then ‘new’ city from different timelines and places (including BRASILIA itself). A wonderful companion to the previous stories, combining themes from them with a sort of madness to which one grows accustomed as the image of the writer has of herself: one that I have grown to know throughout this whole book.
My detailed review of all these stories is posted elsewhere under my name and is far too big to post here, but above is part of its conclusion.
My detailed review of all these stories is posted elsewhere under my name and is far too big to post here, but above is part of its conclusion.
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Anderson De Paiva Dahlberg
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Fantastic book!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 October 2018Verified Purchase
Excellent book! Highly recommended for anyone interested in Clarice Lispector.
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eddy bruin
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Stories
Reviewed in Germany on 6 July 2019Verified Purchase
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rachel
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Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on 24 February 2018Verified Purchase
Outstanding!