The Besieged City

Rich with visions, miraculous horses, and linguistic ecstasy, The Besieged City stars Lucrécia. Clarice Lispector's heroine is a materialistic girl free of the burden of thought: "Behold, behold, all of her, terribly physical, one of the objects."

"The object-the thing," Lispector once remarked, "always fascinated me and in a certain sense destroyed me. In my book The Besieged City I speak indirectly about the mystery of the thing. The thing is a specialized and immobilized animal."

About the author

Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called "astounding" (Rachel Kushner), "a penetrating genius" (Donna Seaman, Booklist), and "one of the twentieth century's most mysterious writers" (Orhan Pamuk).

Product details

• Authors: Clarice Lispector
• Assisted by: Benjamin Moser (Editor), Johnny Lorenz (Translation)
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2024
• EAN: 9780811238502
• ISBN: 978-0-8112-3850-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 200 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 234 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature