Despite its apparent spontaneity, this is a masterly work of art, which rearranges language and plays in the gaps between reality and fiction.
Clarice Lispector (Author)
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 Gra a Aranha Prize for the best first novel.
She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel,
The Hour of the Star.
A bewitching, jewel-like book unlike anything in modern literature.
Agua Viva baffles and inspires me ... Each word of the book lands
with the sweet force of a blade ... crystalline
*Gagosian Quarterly*
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*
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