The Chandelier, written when Lispector was only twenty-three, reveals a very different author from the college student whose debut novel, Near to the Wild Heart, announced the landfall of “Hurricane Clarice.”
Virginia and her cruel, beautiful brother, Daniel, grow up in a decaying country mansion. They leave for the city, but the change of locale leaves Virginia’s internal life unperturbed. In intensely poetic language, Lispector conducts a stratigraphic excavation of Virginia’s thoughts, revealing the drama of Clarice’s lifelong quest to discover “the nucleus made of a single instant”–and displaying a new face of this great writer, blazing with the vitality of youth.
Author: Clarice Lispector
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 05/28/2019
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780811228718
Language: English
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