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Family ties. / Translated with an introd. by Giovanni Pontiero

By:

Lispector, Clarice

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Texas pan-American seriesPublication details: Austin, : University of Texas Press , c1972Description: 156 p. : ; 24 cmISBN:

9780292724488

Uniform titles:

Laços de família . English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS FIC LIS

LOC classification:

PZ4.L769 Fam PQ9697.L585

Contents:

The daydreams of a drunk woman.--Love.--The chicken.--The imitation of the rose.--Happy birthday.--The smallest woman in the world.--The dinner.--Preciousness.--Family ties.--The beginning of a fortune.--Mystery in Sao Christovao.--The crime of the mathematics professor.--The buffalo.

Summary: The silent rage that seizes a matriarch whose family is feting her eighty-ninth year.The tangle of emotions felt by a sophisticated young woman toward her elderly mother. An adolescent girl's obsessive fear of being looked at. The "giddying sense of compassion" that a blind man introduces into a young housewife's settled existence. Of such is made the world of Clarice Lispector, the Brazilian writer whose finest work is acknowledged to be her exquisitely crafted short stories. Here, in these thirteen of Lispector's most brilliantly conceived stories, mysterious and unexpected moments of crisis propel characters to self-discovery or keenly felt intuitions about the human condition. Her characters mirror states of mind. Alienated by their unsettling sense of life's absurdity, they seem at times absorbed in their interior lives and in the passions that dominate and usually defeat them.

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The silent rage that seizes a matriarch whose family is feting her eighty-ninth year.The tangle of emotions felt by a sophisticated young woman toward her elderly mother. An adolescent girl's obsessive fear of being looked at. The "giddying sense of compassion" that a blind man introduces into a young housewife's settled existence. Of such is made the world of Clarice Lispector, the Brazilian writer whose finest work is acknowledged to be her exquisitely crafted short stories. Here, in these thirteen of Lispector's most brilliantly conceived stories, mysterious and unexpected moments of crisis propel characters to self-discovery or keenly felt intuitions about the human condition. Her characters mirror states of mind. Alienated by their unsettling sense of life's absurdity, they seem at times absorbed in their interior lives and in the passions that dominate and usually defeat them.

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