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A review by wildgurl
The Besieged City by Clarice Lispector
4.0
The Besieged City
by Clarice Lispector
Translated from Portugese by Johnny Lorenz
1949 / 2019
New Directions
4.0 / 5.0
In a world of seeing vs. being seen, Lucrecia Neves, attempts to force the reader to see the innate life within the lifeless. Even inanimate objects - a porcelain figures or a doll, as well as fields of lavender-all hold a magnetism that brings them to life, for her. Lucrecia lives with her widowed mother in the small undeveloped area called Sao Geraldo. Of three very different suitors, Lucrecia attempts to re-create the city she is in to a place of distinction, with one who does not understand her imagination.
This is rich and beautiful, the prose at times challenging, but so brilliantly done you simply can not stop. Recommended.
by Clarice Lispector
Translated from Portugese by Johnny Lorenz
1949 / 2019
New Directions
4.0 / 5.0
In a world of seeing vs. being seen, Lucrecia Neves, attempts to force the reader to see the innate life within the lifeless. Even inanimate objects - a porcelain figures or a doll, as well as fields of lavender-all hold a magnetism that brings them to life, for her. Lucrecia lives with her widowed mother in the small undeveloped area called Sao Geraldo. Of three very different suitors, Lucrecia attempts to re-create the city she is in to a place of distinction, with one who does not understand her imagination.
This is rich and beautiful, the prose at times challenging, but so brilliantly done you simply can not stop. Recommended.