Clarice Lispector était une autrice brésilienne acclamée internationalement pour ses romans et nouvelles innovants. Son œuvre est réputée pour sa profonde perspicacité psychologique et son usage expérimental du langage, explorant le cœur de l'existence humaine. Lispector abordait des thèmes tels que l'identité, la spiritualité et le quotidien, recourant souvent au monologue intérieur et à un style introspectif. Son approche narrative unique et les questions philosophiques qu'elle soulevait en ont fait l'une des voix les plus significatives et influentes de la littérature latino-américaine du XXe siècle.
Lori, institutrice, vient de quitter sa famille provinciale et de s'établir à Rio de Janeiro. Ulysse est professeur de philosophie. Leurs rendez-vous s'inscrivent dans un quotidien banal. Mais elle est Lori-Lorelei, une sirène, et lui est le sage Ulysse qui vit à distance, voyageur immobile qui attend la femme, l'observe à chaque étape de sa quête du monde et d'elle-même.
" ... Je vivrai plus grande que dans l'enfance, je serai brutale et mal faite comme une pierre, je serai légère et vague comme ce que l'on sent et ne comprend pas, je me dépasserai en ondes, ah, Dieu, et que tout vienne et tombe sur moi, jusqu'à l'incompréhension de moi-même en certains moments blancs parce qu'il suffit de m'accomplir et alors rien n'empêchera mon chemin jusqu'à la mort-sans-peur, de toute lutte ou repos je me lèverai forte et belle comme un jeune cheval. " Près du cœur sauvage est le troisième titre de Clarice Lispector paru aux éditions Des femmes qui ont entrepris de publier l'intégralité de son œuvre.
If the magnificent work of Clarice Lispector comprises a literary feast (and it does), then the crônicas-short, spontaneous, intensely vivid newspaper pieces-are her delicious canapés
Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of eighty-six stories, now we have eighty- nine in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don't know what to do with themselves-- and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives--and hers--and ours.
Written in agony, this book features elegiac meditation on the creation of life, and of art.
Despite its apparent spontaneity, this is a work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction.
Noveller. Three tales of three women - their secret desires, fears and madness
A disoriented and confused young woman looks back on her life and her place in the world."
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. 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-Cola, 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. As Macabéa heads toward her absurd death, 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 leaves us deep in Lispector territory indeed.
The publication of Clarice Lispector's Collected Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: 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. Lispector's stories take us through their lives - and ours. From one of the greatest modern writers, these 85 stories, gathered from the nine collections published during her lifetime, follow Clarice Lispector throughout her life
