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Too Much of Life

By Clarice Lispector

Too Much of Life Essays & Short Stories

Too Much of Life

By Clarice Lispector

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The things I've learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don't know. Or maybe they do even when they don't. There are various ways of knowing by not-knowing. I know: it happens to me too. The crônica, a literary genre peculiar to Brazilian newspapers, allows writers (or even soccer stars) to address a wide readership on any theme they like. Chatty, mystical, intimate, flirtatious, and revelatory, Clarice Lispector's pieces for the Saturday edition of Rio's leading paper, the Jornal do Brasil, from 1967 to 1973, take the forms of memories, essays, aphorisms, and serialized stories. Endlessly delightful, her insights make one sit up and think, whether about children or social ills or pets or society women or the business of writing or love. This new, large, and beautifully translated volume, Too Much of Life: The Complete Crônicas presents a new aspect of the great writer-at once off the cuff and spot on.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
864
Release Date:
2022-09-27
Publication Date:
2022-09-27
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0811226794
ISBN13:
9780811226790
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
802 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
201 cm
Thickness:
51 cm
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