The Besieged City
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‘One of the hidden geniuses of the twentieth century’ Colm Tóibín’She suddenly leaned toward the mirror and sought the love­liest way to see herself’Lucrécia Neves is vain, unreflective, insolently superficial, almost mute. She may have no inner life at all. As she morphs from small-town girl to worldly wife of a rich man, and her small home town surrenders to the forces of progress, Lucrécia seeks perfection: to be an object, serene, smooth, beyond the burden of words or even thought itself. A book that obsessed its author, The Besieged City is unlike any other work in Lispector’s canon: a story of transformation, of what it means to see and to be seen.

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Weight 0.171 kg
Dimensions 1.1 × 13 × 19.7 cm
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Paperback
Language

Pages

224
Publisher

Year Published

2019-8-1
Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

0241371376

Prolific and peerless … a Brazilian national treasure … Clarice sought a knowledge beyond knowledge, a wisdom that left wisdom behind … through her texts emerges the struggle of life: how to live each day, what the painful process of loving is, why one should pick up a pen and respond to indignity in the first place
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