The besieged city /
Lispector, Clarice.
The besieged city / Clarice Lispector ; translated from the Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz ; introduction by Benjamin Moser ; edited by Benjamin Moser. - New York : New Directions Book, 2019. - xxi, 213 p. ; 22 cm.
Translation of: A cidade sitiada.
Publishers Weekly, February 2019 Kirkus Starred, February 2019
"Lucr�ecia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors--soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus--are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, which is of a piece with S�ao Geraldo, the rough-and-ready township she inhabits. Civilization is on its way to this place, where wild horses still roam. As Lucr�ecia is tamed by marriage, S�ao Geraldo gradually expels its horses; and as the town strives for the highest attainment it can conceive--a viaduct--it takes on the progressively more metropolitan manners that Lucr�ecia, with her vulgar ambitions, desires too. Yet it is precisely through this woman's superficiality--her identification with the porcelain knickknacks in her mother's parlor--that Clarice Lispector creates a profound and enigmatic meditation on 'the mystery of the thing'"--OCLC.
Adult Follett School Solutions.
9780811226714
2018046582
Women--Fiction.
Brazil--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
PQ9697.L585 / C513 2019
869.3/42
The besieged city / Clarice Lispector ; translated from the Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz ; introduction by Benjamin Moser ; edited by Benjamin Moser. - New York : New Directions Book, 2019. - xxi, 213 p. ; 22 cm.
Translation of: A cidade sitiada.
Publishers Weekly, February 2019 Kirkus Starred, February 2019
"Lucr�ecia Neves is ready to marry. Her suitors--soldierly Felipe, pensive Perseu, dependable Mateus--are attracted to her tawdry not-quite-beauty, which is of a piece with S�ao Geraldo, the rough-and-ready township she inhabits. Civilization is on its way to this place, where wild horses still roam. As Lucr�ecia is tamed by marriage, S�ao Geraldo gradually expels its horses; and as the town strives for the highest attainment it can conceive--a viaduct--it takes on the progressively more metropolitan manners that Lucr�ecia, with her vulgar ambitions, desires too. Yet it is precisely through this woman's superficiality--her identification with the porcelain knickknacks in her mother's parlor--that Clarice Lispector creates a profound and enigmatic meditation on 'the mystery of the thing'"--OCLC.
Adult Follett School Solutions.
9780811226714
2018046582
Women--Fiction.
Brazil--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
PQ9697.L585 / C513 2019
869.3/42