Reviews

The Apple in the Dark by Clarice Lispector

wjswoff's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

claracalymayor's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

eighthopal's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

ghosttears's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

akinkley's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

mollymisek's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I feel like this book taught me how to actually read

morgmaben's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I don’t understand this book, and also now because of it I understand everything and nothing at all.

taylorholzman's review against another edition

challenging reflective

4.0

thestoryofaz's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

5.0

Clarice Lispector's fourth novel is a heady, sprawling, and ambitious work of art. She contests and breaks all notions and rules of not just literature, but also of personhood and psyche. Nothing escapes her singular vision; even the air becomes an object to revere, describe and uphold. The novel may be described as one man's journey to self-discovery but what does that entail? What really happens, if anything happens at all? This is not a story to be rushed through and be done with, or perhaps even understood. Take your sweet time and savor each word, each breath, each sentiment as though each were the promise of a luscious apple dangling low and heavy in the dark of your probable incomprehension and inevitable amazement. 

444ndromeda's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

hay algo muy divertido en leer a lispector cuando piensas que ya te estabas acostumbrando a su estilo, porque después lees apple in the dark y te mueve las ideas.

la deconstrucción que nos presenta de martim es algo tardío y, al principio de la obra, cansado de leer. llega a crear un ambiente pesado que poco a poco renace en una claridad nunca antes percibida, tirándonos ideas existenciales y la eterna pregunta sobre qué es ser un individuo, que en el caso de martim le aflige por el crimen casi ignorado que aún  así le respira en la nuca. había puntos, de todas maneras, en donde la curiosa devoción masculina de lispector resulta cansada y estanca nuevamente a la obra, pero después volvemos a la temática del amor, la duda y la inerte incertidumbre de la esperanza y que divertido se vuelve leerla.

will always love her eternal-internal characters.