Agua Viva

Author: Clarice Lispector

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  • : $19.99 AUD
  • : 9780141197364
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
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  • : February 2014
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 6mm
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  • : March 2014
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  • : Clarice Lispector
  • : Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
  • : Paperback
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Barcode 9780141197364
9780141197364

Description

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Agua 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, Agua Viva stands out as a particular triumph.

Reviews

An emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same pantheon as Kafka and Joyce * Edmund White * Lispector stands at the pinnacle of Brazil's impressive literary achievement * Washington Post Book World * One of the very great writers of the last century * Guardian *

Author description

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 Graca Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.