The besieged city
Lispector, Clarice2019
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Lucrécia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. She may have no inner life at all. As she morphs from small-town girl to worldly wife of a rich man, and her small home town surrenders to the forces of progress, Lucrécia seeks perfection: to be an object, serene, smooth, beyond the burden of words or even thought itself. A book that obsessed its author, 'The Besieged City' is unlike any other work in Lispector's canon: a story of transformation, of what it means to see and to be seen.
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The besieged city / Clarice Lispector ; translated by Johnny Lorenz ; edited by Benjamin Moser.
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UK : Penguin Books, 2019.
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213 pages ; 20 cm.
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Translated from the Portuguese.
ISBN:
9780241371374 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
869.342
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EnglishPortuguese
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BRN:
1186601
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