Agua Viva

Informationen zum Autor Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually Brazil. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart, in 1943, when she was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Graça Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star . Klappentext In Água Viva Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct! confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in their emotional power and have been a huge influence on many artists and writers! including one Brazilian musician who read it one hundred and eleven times. Despite its apparent spontaneity! this is a masterly work of art! which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction. Zusammenfassung Despite its apparent spontaneity, this is a work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Clarice Lispector, Lispector Clarice
• Assisted by: Stefan Tobler (Translation), Tobler Stefan (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.02.2014
• EAN: 9780141197364
• ISBN: 978-0-14-119736-4
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics Paperbacks; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Interior life, FICTION / World Literature / Brazil