Reading with Clarice Lispector
β Scribed by HeΜleΜne Cixous
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 191
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction Verena Andermatt Conley
1. "Sunday, before falling asleep": A Primal Scene
2. Agua viva: How to Follow a Trinket of Water
3. The Apple in the Dark: The Temptation of Understanding
4. "The Egg and the Chicken": Love Is Not Having
5. " Felicidade clandestina'': The Promise of Having What One Will Have
6. The Hour of the Star: How Does One Desire Wealth or Poverty?
Index
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