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The besieged city / Clarice Lispector ; translated from the Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz ; introduction by Benjamin Moser ; edited by Benjamin Moser.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Portuguese Publication details: New York : New Directions Book, 2019.Description: xxi, 213 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780811226714
Uniform titles:
  • Cidade sitiada. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Besieged cityDDC classification:
  • 869.3/42 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ9697.L585 C513 2019
Summary: "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.
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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.

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