The Chandelier

✍ Scribed by Clarice Lispector

• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 214 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0811226700

✦ Synopsis

Now, for the first time in English we have Clarice Lispector's second novel--a radical part of what made her a Brazilian legend

Fresh from the enormous success of her debut novel Near to the Wild Heart, Hurricane Clarice let loose something stormier with 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, consisting almost entirely of interior monologues--interrupted by odd and jarring fragments of dialogue and action--the novel moves in slow waves that crest in moments of revelation. As Virginia seeks freedom via creation, the drama of her isolated life is almost entirely internal: from childhood, she sculpts clay figurines with "the best clay one could desire: white, supple, sticky, cold. She got a clear and tender...