Described by Clarice Lispector as'the best one',this intoxicating portrayal of a man searching for his destiny is her mystical,enigmatic masterpiece'All I've got is hunger. And that instable way of grasping an apple in the dark-without letting it fall'Martim,believing that he has committed a murder,flees the city and escapes into the night. Wandering through the vastness of nature he arrives,in a state of fear and wonder,at a remote ranch run by two women. There Martim finds work and,as he labours in the blistering heat of the Brazilian summer,becomes transfigured; remade into something else entirely.Translated by Benjamin Moser'The most important Brazilian woman writer of the twentieth century... The richness of The Apple in the Dark defies the explanatory power of any single interpretation'TLS
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241371350Number of pages: 400Weight: 292 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 23 mm
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Lispector is the premier Latin American woman prose writer of this centuryClarice Lispector left behind an astounding body of work that has no real corollary inside literature or outside itBrilliant and unclassifiable: glamorous,cultured,moody,Lispector is an emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same pantheon as Kafka and JoyceOne of the true originals of Latin American literatureA genius on the level of NabokovSphinx,sorceress,sacred monster. The revival of the hypnotic Clarice Lispector has been one of the true literary events of the twenty-first century
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