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«Per quanto possa sembrare strano, si resta con un’impressione luminosa, ancorché sgomenta, avendo attraversato l’atmosfera di sgradevolezza, di malessere e di smarrimento, di indecifrabilità, di serpeggiante o esplosiva follia che avvolge i personaggi della Lispector. La grande virtù dell’autrice sta nella decisione di guardare come fioriscono, come si staccano dal fluire opaco dell’esistenza, gli stati di coscienza enigmatici, i collassi dell’identità personale, le fughe impossibili dagli ordini stabiliti».

ALFREDO GIULIANI

'One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century' - Colm Tóibín

A housewife’s life is shattered by a sudden epiphany. A simple tale of killing cockroaches fragments into multiple narratives, each uncovering new truths. In this selection of haunting short stories, Lispector reveals the permeable boundaries between past and present, the real and the surreal, showing ordinary moments to contain the deepest existential truths.

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith

Thirteen short tales from one of the most blistering and innovative writers of the twentieth century.

The small incidents of life become moments of inner revelation in the luminous writing of Clarice Lispector. A woman contemplating a vase of roses after a nervous breakdown; a tangled mother-daughter relationship; a man's abandonment of a dog; an animal in a zoo: each one leads to mystery and self-discovery, delight and devastation.