Bøger af Clarice Lispector

Et hastigt glimt af den unge pige Macabéa på gaden i Rio de Janeiro er nok til at forfatteren Rodrigo S.M. bliver besat. Han kredser om hendes skikkelse og historie og forsøger at indfange og fortælle om hendes usynlige liv i den store millionby.Med sin helt egen dragende skønhed, poesi og humor fortælles Macabéas historie – og historien om dens fortæller, som forsøger at berette hendes liv.Stjernens time udkommer i Gyldendals Skala-serie for genopdagede mesterværker fra det 20. århundrede. 

En støvet, sort, næsten forhistorisk kakerlak – det er hvad skulptøren G.H. møder, da hun åbner sin stuepiges garderobeskab. Hun smækker straks skabsdøren i – men en uimodståelig fascination er vakt. Mødet med kakerlakken åbner døren til hidtil lukkede rum, til en spirituel krise, og stiller spørgsmålstegn ved selve G.H.s identitet og placering i universet."Passionen ifølge G.H." er en filosofisk betragtning over livet. Det er en desorienteret og forvirret kvindes fascinerende tilbageblik på sit liv og sin placering i verden. En udforskning af selverkendelsen, men også af ordenes og sprogets betydning og udfordringen i at møde andre mennesker.Nyoversat af Tine Lykke Prado og med forord af Eva Tind.

Features stories ranging from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with themselves.

Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly and unloved.

G H, a well-to-do Rio sculptress, enters the room of her maid, which is as clear and white 'as in an insane asylum from which dangerous objects have been removed'. There she sees a cockroach - black, dusty, prehistoric - crawling out of the wardrobe and, panicking, slams the door on it.

As Joana, endlessly mutable, moves through different emotional states, different inner lives and different truths, this impressionistic, dreamlike and fiercely intelligent novel asks if any of us ever really know who we are. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown.

Oversat fra portugisisk af Tine Lykke Prado og Kristina Nya Glaffey. Forord af Mathilde MoestrupUdvalgte avisklummer af Clarice Lispector bragt i Jornal do Brasil 1967-1973. Her møder læseren en højest charmerende, koket og humoristisk side af forfatteren, som træder endnu tydeligere frem end i hendes romaner og noveller. I teksterne reflekterer Clarice Lispector over det smertefulde, besværlige og lykkelige ved at skrive. Det er både indsigtsfuld, underholdende og sorgfuld læsning, som også kaster nye perspektiver på Lispectors skønlitterære værker.Clarice Lispector (1920-1977) er migrant fra Ukraine og ankom med sin familie til Brasilien blot to måneder gammel. De seneste 20 år har hendes forfatterskab vundet udbredelse i Europa Hun udmærker sig som en original fornyer af sprog, genre og tænkning, og hun indskriver sig som en af det 20. århundredes store forfattere.

SØGER MAN AT få bekræftet det mytologiske billede af Clarice som en smuk, kølig og lukket forfatter, går man forgæves her. I brevene overrumpler hun os med sin ømhed, sine blotlagte svagheder, sin menneskelighed. Og selvom man mærker en modvilje mod at blive læst biografisk, åbner forfatteren også for sit forhold til sine værker og sit arbejde med skriften og giver os nye blikke på litteraturen, både andres og den hun selv skabte. Men også moderskabet, venskabet, familien, forfatterpligter, oversættelsesgenvordigheder og meget andet diskuteres af denne brevskriver, der gennem hele sit voksenliv synes både at plages af og insistere på særligt én ting: sin ret til at tvivle.

A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally innovative, and philosophically profound as Clarice Lispector's, Água Viva stands out as a particular triumph.

Despite its apparent spontaneity, this is a work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction.

This radiant selection of Clarice Lispector's best and best-loved stories includes such familiar favorites as "The Smallest Woman in the World,""Love," "Family Ties," and "The Egg and the Chicken." Lispector's luminous regard for life's small revelatory incidents is legendary, and here her genius is concentrated in a fizzing, portable volume. Covert Joy offers the particular bliss a book can bring that she expresses in the title story: Joy would always be covert for me... Sometimes I'd sit in the hammock, swinging with the book open on my lap, not touching it, in the purest ecstasy.I was no longer a girl with a book: I was a woman with her lover

Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector's third novel--the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals--is in English at last

Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian naturalized Brazilian, is today rated as one of the greatest names in 20th century literature. Although she was discreet about her personal life, Clarice gave great interviews interviews, where she exposed her ideas on literature and existential and existential concerns. This volume of the This volume of the Encounters collection to the public some of the nuances of this woman a woman who was a mystery even to herself."What I feel is that a book, a book, a book, a book, a book, a book, a book, a book, a book, a book, a book, a book, starts to have a life of its own. It is like the offspring of an animal. The making of the book, whatever the content, be it short stories or novels, is always something painful. is always painful. An agonizing process. Once this suffering is over, that is, once the the labor, I want the book to get out there, to turn itself around."

"It's the best one," Clarice Lispector remarked on the occasion of the publication of The Apple in the Dark: "I can't define it, how it is, I can only say that it's much better constructed than the previous ones." A book in three chapters, with three central characters, The Apple in the Dark is in fact highly sculpted, while being chiefly a metaphysical book, and in this stunning new translation, the novel's mysteries and allegories glow with a fresh scintillating light.Martim, fleeing from a murder he believes he committed, plunges into the dark nocturnal jungle: stumbling along, in a state of both fear and wonder, eventually he comes to a remote, quiet ranch and finds work with the two women who own it. The women are tranquil enough before his arrival, but are affected by his radical mystery. Soaked through with Martim's inner night (his soul is in the darkness where everything is created), the novel vibrates with his perpetual searching state of vigil. Often he feels close to an epiphany: "for the first time he was present in the moment in which whatever is happening is happening." Yet such flashes flicker out, so he's ever on the watch for "life to take on the dimensions of a destiny."In an interview, Lispector once said: "I am Martim." As she puts it in The Apple in the Dark: "All I've got is hunger. And that unstable way of grasping an apple in the dark-without letting it fall."

In the mistaken belief that he has killed his wife, Martim flees the city and arrives, in a state of both fear and wonder, at a remote ranch. There, he will have to remake himself, emerging, from the beast-like state in which his crime has plunged him, to the fullness of a reinvented humanity. Along the way, he will mark the lives of the two women who run the ranch, brambly, authoritarian Vitória and her weepy cousin Ermelinda. But the real drama is interior: Clarice Lispector's most wrenching, and most intoxicating, exploration of how a man becomes a human - and of how language can transform a life into a destiny. 'A highly sculpted, metaphysical book whose mysteries and allegories glow with a scintillating light, Apple in the Dark is a masterpiece by "one of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century"' Colm TóibínTranslated by Benjamin Moser.

Lóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only "to love and to be loved," but also "to be worthy of life itself."Published in 1968, An Apprenticeship is Clarice Lispector's attempt to reinvent herself following the exhausting effort of her metaphysical masterpiece The Passion According to G. H. Here, in this unconventional love story, she explores the ways in which people try to bridge the gaps between them, and the result, unusual in her work, surprised many readers and became a bestseller.Some appreciated its accessibility; others denounced it as sexist or superficial. To both admirers and critics, the olympian Clarice gave a typically elliptical answer: "I humanized myself," she said. "The book reflects that."

Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector's third novel-the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals-is in English at last. Lucrécia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors-soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus-are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, which is of a piece with Sao Geraldo, the rough-and-ready township she inhabits. Civilization is on its way to this place, where wild horses still roam. As Lucrécia is tamed by marriage, Sao Geraldo gradually expels its horses; and as the town strives for the highest attainment it can conceive-a viaduct-it takes on the progressively more metropolitan manners that Lucrécia, with her vulgar ambitions, desires too. Yet it is precisely through this woman's superficiality-her identification with the porcelain knickknacks in her mother's parlor-that Clarice Lispector creates a profound and enigmatic meditation on "the mystery of the thing." Written in Europe shortly after Clarice Lispector's own marriage, The Besieged City is a proving ground for the intricate language and the radical ideas that characterize one of her century's greatest writers-and an ironic ode to the magnetism of the material.

Four beguiling tales for children of all ages. A surprising new facet of Clarice Lispector's genius

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 the First World War 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 Gra¿Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.

'The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently through the house'Tales of desire and madness from this giant of Brazilian literature.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery, Macabéa is inwardly free/She doesn't seem to know how unhappy she should be. Lispector employs her pathetic heroine against her urbane, empty narrator-edge of despair to edge of despair-and, working them like a pair of scissors, she cuts away the reader's preconceived notions about poverty, identity, love and the art of fiction. In her last book she takes readers close to the true mystery of life and leave us deep in Lispector territory indeed.

Written in agony, this book features elegiac meditation on the creation of life, and of art.