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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.

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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, at the height of a spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most genuinely shocking scene in Brazilian literature... Lispector wrote that of all...

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A novel about a young female anti-heroine living in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.

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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 Olga Borelli. These fragments form a dialogue between a god-like author who infuses the breath of life into his creation: the speaking, breathing, dy...

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 heart of life." The book was an unprecedented sensation - the discovery of a genius. Narrative epiphanies and interior monologue frame the life of Joan...

Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend, she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all h...

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Over de menselijke eenzaamheid in de grote stad Maagd, typiste en coca-coladrinkster: zo typeert Macabéa zichzelf. Het arme en onaantrekkelijke meisje trekt vanuit de provincie naar Rio de Janeiro, waar zij een bescheiden kantoorbaantje vindt. Ze dagdroomt, beleeft een onbeantwoorde liefde en wordt ten slotte aangereden om te sterven als een naamloze, eenzame dode. Hoewel ze is voorgelogen, mishandeld en uitgebuit, was Macabéa toch gelukkig...

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Escrita poco antes de morir e inédita en castellano, Un soplo de vida es la última indagación literaria de Clarice Lispector y, quizá, su más intensa meditación sobre el sentido de la vida y del acto de escribir libre de toda atadura. Para todos aquellos lectores de esta gran escritora brasileña, esta obra póstuma arrojará, sin duda, una nueva luz sobre lo más íntimo de su escritura.

Martin is convinced that he has murdered his wife. In a delirium of guilt and grief, he wanders through a forest until he comes across an isolated farm run by Vitoria - an indomitable spinster who is 'afraid to live', and her flighty, obsessive cousin Ermelinda, who is terrified of death.

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Cerca del corazón salvaje es el intento de construir la biografía de Joana, no el personaje central, sino uno de ellos, desde la infancia hasta la madurez, buscando la verdad interior, estudiando la complejidad de las relaciones humanas, intentando olvidar la muerte, la muerte del padre, que Joana no aceptará jamás. En esta autora, el silencio es el centro de su obra. y también, la meditación y la experimentación sobre los límites de la palabr...

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